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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy oval framed buckle with ornate outside edge and attached plate, dating from the 13th - 15th century, between AD 1250 - 1450 (length: 44mm; width of buckle: 27mm; thickness of buckle: 4.5mm; weight: 7.8g).The oval-framed buckle has round lobed protrusions on the outside edge and to either side of a central sheet roller, which appears to be undecorated. The sides of the buckle frame are D-shaped in side section and curve outwards, and the strap bar is offset and narrowed. Addtionally, the pin is missing and there is no other decoration on the buckle. The damaged and incomplete sheet plate is still attached to the strap bar and is recessed for the frame. There is a central hole near the rolled edge of the plate for the pin (which is now missing), as well as two other visible rivet holes 11.5mm down the length of the plate. Only one of these rivets is still partially attached in one of the holes. On one side of the sheet plate, the artefact is broken immediately after the two rivet holes, while on the other side, the plate continues approximately 13mm in length. Overall, the buckle and plate and in a worn but fair condition with a dark green patina.Additionally, there is a separate fragment of sheet plate (length: 24.5mm; width: 17.5mm; thickness: 0.5mm; weight: 1.3g) handed in for recording by the finder from the same findspot as the artefact above, which seems to probably fit with the broken end of the above plate. If this additional plate fragment is from the same artefact, then when complete, the plate would have had four rivet holes with two at the buckle end and two other holes at the terminal end. There is also only one remaining copper alloy rivet on this plate fragment.A similar example is illustrated in Egan, G & Pritchard, F, 2002 edition, 'Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 3: Dress Accessories c. 1150 - c. 1450', pages 76-7, fig 46, ref no 317. Another example of this type of buckle is also illustrated in Egan & Pritchard, pages 73-4, fig 44, ref no 301.
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