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Description: | The buckle frame is made from cast copper alloy. It measures 16.9mm in length from side edge to side edge. The width from the apex of the loop to the strap bar is 16.4mm. Its weight is 1.65g. In plan the frame is a sub-oval shape. The strap bar is slightly off-set, narrowed and is sub-square in cross-section. The outer edge opposite the strap bar is sub-rectangular in plan and section. The obverse of the outer edge is decorated with parallel traverse grooves the longest of which is 5.0mm. The side edges are sub-rectangular in cross-section and curved outwards. The reverse of the buckle is flat and undecorated. The pin is missing. The buckle is a dark matt green grey colour with no patina. It is fairly well preserved with little signs of abrasion. An almost identical example can be found in Egan and Pritchard (Egan, G and Pritchard, F. 1991 Medieval Finds From Excavations in London: 3. Dress Accessories c.1150 - c.1450, HMSO, London, fig.44; 294). Egan suggests that these type of buckles date to the late 12th to late 14th centuries (p.76).
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