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Description: | A cast copper alloy double-looped, oval spectacle buckle frame complete with cast pin. The frame has a shallow convex profile in cross-section and a simple, narrow central bar which is 2.4mm thick. Its sides are concave, curving inwards towards the central bar, and the ends of the loops have 'cusped' (or 'serrated') outer edges. Each loop has five filed grooves, giving the outer edge of the loop its cusped appearance; the central groove acts as a pin rest. Each narrow raised area adjacent to the grooves has filed decoration of either one or two grooves. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The pin is 14.7mm in length. Whitehead (1996, 60; ref. 354) illustrates a very similar example which he dates to c.1450 - c.1600. Further parallels can be found on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, references LANCUM-2DA1D1 and SF-F617B3. The relatively small size of these buckles with cusped outer edges prompted Whitehead (1996, 58) to state that 'they...may have performed a special function which is so far unidentified'.
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