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Description: | Incomplete gilded copper alloy medieval buckle, surviving probably as about half of the original buckle, which would have been rectangular/ slightly trapezoidal in shape.The surviving half consists of three sides - that missing is the axis bar. The outside edge is 40mm long and 5.5mm wide, with a thickness of 1.5mm. The internal length is 30mm. The width of the buckle is 18mm (internal 12.5mm).The arms extending away from the outside edge slope slightly inwards and thicken at the end (which is presumably a break, although the metal is worn and does not immediately suggest this. However, this would otherwise have had to hold an axis bar, of which there is no sign in corrosion or attachment holes - unless the buckle has broken extremely neatly just before a non-intergral axis bar). The width expands by c.0.75mm (from roughly 3.75 to 4.5mm).The metal is rather worn - original patina is missing around the edges and the colour beneath is purpley. Where the patina does survive, it is green and gilded. Some patina does survive at the end of one arm, possibly suggesting it was an outside edge? A 2mm wide constriction for the pin is at the middle of the outside edge. Decoration on the constrictino side consists of two equidistant shallow grooves following the line of the buckle. On one arm, the remains of rocker-arm decoration can be seen along one groove - presumably this followed on all grooves. The reverse is plain.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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