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Description: | A single lopped oval buckle with integral forked spacer, cast in copper alloy. The buckle plate is missing. One of the prongs of the fork has been bent. The strap bar of the oval buckle is integral to the fork spacer; the two have been cast as one. The pin recess (and the surviving pin) sit in-between the forks of the spacer, on the strap bar. The pin has been bent out of position. The buckle frame has a triangle lip projection where the terminal of the pin rests. The tapering prongs of the forked spacer has one step cut into the copper alloy, the step is about half way down each prong. This stepping occurs on the inner edges of the fork. The front of the oval buckle has a chamfered edge, but the fork and the reverse of the oval buckle are flat and have squared edges. The loop measures 23.46mm by 20.57mm. The prongs measure 22.05mm x 13.71mm. The total length is 42.62.mm. File marks, which can often seen on post-medieval artefacts can be seen on the surface of this artefact. The artefact is a dark greyish-green colour. It is in a good condition. It probably dates from c. 1400-1600. Similar buckles can be seen in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, pp78-82, Fig 48 and 49, No. 322-330.
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