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Description: | Medieval gilded cast copper alloy buckle with integral plate, of a type often referred to as spur buckles. Oval frame, cast collared pin, two transverse ridges behind strap bar, one with punched dot decoration, the other with a copper alloy rivet. Narrowed integral plate with central barrel moulding with rivet, and expanded trefoil shaped terminal with three piercings, one containing a rivet which expands laterally on the reverse (this is not a rove). The proximal end of the plate is bent towards the reverse. Traces of gilding on the obverse. Length 51.8mm, width 15.84mm, thickness actoss plate 2.80mm, thickness across rivets 7.7mm, weight 7.36g.See Whitehead 1996 ('Buckles, 1250-1800', Greenlight, Chelmsford) for a similar buckle, p.34, no.199.
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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