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Description: | A worn and incomplete small copper-alloy medieval buckle, comprising broken cast frame, pin and incomplete sheet plate. Approximately half of the oval buckle frame survives. It has an offset, narrowed bar which protrudes at the sides. The extant pin is of thick wire construction, and simply bent round the bar for retention. It has been dramatically bent to one side through old damage. The frame and pin are retained in a damaged plate of folded sheet construction. The plate is recessed to accommodate the frame. It also features a pin slot. It tapers from a width of 11mm at the frame end to 7.5mm at the attachment end. The upper element survives to a length of 36.8mm, while the lower element has been broken to a length of 23.2mm. At the frame end is a pair of rivets, one of which retains its head. On the longer surviving part of the plate there is a further perforation which would have taken a rivet c. 7.8mm from the attachment end. The plate is generally plain; one of the upper surfaces may have an incised border. Viewed in profile the plate can be seen to have been struck from a number of directions and buckled accordingly. As none of the components of this buckle are in and of themselves very diagnostic a wide medieval date is given for this artefact.
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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