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Description: | Rectangular copper-alloy buckle with central longitudinal bar. The top and bottom edges are slightly curved so that the buckle is angled about the bar. The outer edges are thickened into a sub-cylindrical moulding, and have a complicated method of decoration. Each has four broad transverse rebates cut into it, leaving five projecting areas which each have grooves making the shape of an H. The two vertical grooves have copper-alloy wires set into them which continue the line of the outer edges across the rebates; the wires on one outer edge are complete but those at one end of the other edge are missing. The horizontal grooves between the two wires appear to be merely decorative. There is an example of this kind of buckle known from a late 13th/early 14th century context in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no.443), and a fragment of one from a late 16th- or 17th-century context in Norwich (Margeson 1993, no. 154). This is an unusually well preserved example of a fairly unusual buckle type.
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