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Description: | Complete copper alloy medieval buckle and frame. The buckle frame is D shaped in plan. The front edge of the frame is swollen and semicircular in profile, having a flattened inner side. There is no pin rest. The pin bar is recessed. Attached around the pin bar is the intact folded buckle plate. The buckle plate has a rectangular slot, which allows for the buckle pin to be hooked around the pin bar. The pin is complete and flat in section. The front face of the buckle plate is decorated with a pair of transverse incised lines that are positioned just behind the rectangular slot. Pairs of much cruder incised lines are positioned halfway along the plate and at its terminal end. Two rivet holes are placed two thirds of the way along the buckle plate and the corroded remains of the copper alloy rivets survive within. The back plate is narrower than the front plate, but of similar length. It is plain. The object is abraded. The original surface survives with a dark green patina and traces of tinning to the frame and front and back plates. Exposed surfaces are lighter and brighter green. The object has an overall length of 23.3mm, of which 15.54mm is the buckle plate. The frame is 10.34mm wide, the front plate 10.3mm wide and the reverse plate is 7.2mm wide. The object weighs 2.42g. Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories London: HMSO, figure 59 illustrate a number of examples. They date from the 13th to 14th centuries.
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