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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy oval framed buckle with composite sheet rigid plate, dating to the 14th/ 15th century, between AD 1350 - 1450 (length: 29.5mm; width at buckle: 14.5mm; width at plate: 10mm; thickness: 3.5mm; weight: 2.1g).This small oval buckle has a triangular lip protruding in the centre of the outside edge and is D-shaped in side section. There is no other decoration on the buckle and the pin is completely missing. The integral forked spacer is visible between the corroded (also suffering from bronze disease) and worn separate sheets that still remain on either side (one is more complete than the other), and has a notch for the missing pin at the front. Overall, the buckle and composite plate are in worn and poor condition with a dark green patina.Similar examples are illustrated in Egan, G & Pritchard, F, 2002 edition, 'Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 3: Dress Accessories c. 1150 - c. 1450', pages 78-82, figs 48-9, ref nos 322 - 330. Egan & Pritchard state (page 80) that 'these buckles with their distinctive composite plates seem to have been a widespread mid 14th - to early 15th-century form in this country.....Buckles of this style may have come gradually to supersede those with ornate outside edges and folded plates as the top of the range of mass-produced buckles, following a period in the late 14th century when both forms appear to have been in use.....The rarity of comparable examples on the continent led Fingerlin to identify them as a specifically English form.'
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