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Description: | A worn and bent fragment from a cast copper-alloy buckle of post-medieval date. The frame is rectangular in form with rounded corners. The central pin bar is circular in section (Dia: 3.7mm), while the frame is bevelled on both its upper and lower faces. There is an elaborate pin rest in the centre of the extant outer edge for the now missing pin. This rest consists of a triangular element raised between two grooves which constricts towards the outer edge, the pin rest proper, flanked by on each side by a flat cone which itself expands towards the outer edge. The other edge of the cone is defined by a raised line, dividing it from the rest of the frame. There is further moulding at each end of the pin bar on the frame. This consists of a slightly raised area flanked on each side by a raised line, itself defined by grooves on either side. The buckle has presumably been broken just after the pin bar, although the semicircular remnants of the frame for that loop are short and surprisingly regular and rounded. The extant loop of the buckle has been twisted slightly. The buckle's form and patina, a dull ochre with areas of light green corrosion product, combine to suggest a 17th-century date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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