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Description: | More unusual example of a complete copper alloy Medieval buckle with integral plate. The buckle frame is oval in plan with a bevelled profile and flat reverse. The object is worn, but the frame does appear to have three grooves at the pin rest, but no pin groove. The frame is 13mm long, 17.52mm wide and 3.54mm at the thickest point. The integral plate, which is semicircular in section, is fairly ornate. It extends from an integral double collar behind the buckle frame. Within the top collar is the circular piercing that accommodates the pin. The pin is complete, but the pinhole is now blocked with corrosion product so that the pin is immobile. The lower collar holds a copper alloy rivet, which extends through to the reverse of the object. The plate continues and narrows to an integral decorative terminal. The terminal is tear shaped, with the point forming the very end of the plate. There is a raised saltire cross on the terminal and a pierced circular hole in the top and side angles (the bottom angle being where it joins the rest of the plate). Approximately halfway along the length of the plate is another decorative, integral moulded collar. The reverse of the object is flat and plain. The shaft of the rivet is visible, and though bent, appears complete. When viewed side on with the buckle frame horizontal, the object is bent at two points, just behind the frame is an upward bend of no more than 25 degrees. The plate is then bent again, just after the central collar, at an angle of approximately 95 degrees. The plate is 48.3mm long, of which 19.8mm is the terminal. It is 2.04mm thick. The entire object weighs 8.58g. It is heavily abraded with little of the original surface surviving. It now has a bright green patina due to corrosion. It seems that the bend in the object is probably deliberate and it has been suggested by Ottaway and Rogers in Finds from Medieval York, 2002, page 2889, that buckles of this type may have been used on spurs, though this has not been proved. This volume also illustrates a similar, less ornate, buckle and frame in figure 1437, number 13336. Plainer examples, again with a bend, are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories, figure 48, numbers 320 and 321. Based on these examples, this buckle probably dates from the 13th to 15th century.
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