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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy double looped asymmetrical buckle with moulded surface decoration, dating to the Post Medieval period, between AD 1550 - 1700 (length: 38mm; width: 26.5mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 5.25g).The buckle is sub-rectangular in plan and slightly D-shaped in section. The upper surface is completely decorated with moulded floral and linear patterns. This decoration consists of approximately nineteen moulded transverse and oblique ribs covering the surface of the frame apart from either end of the strap bar with has a single moulded rosette at either end and at one rounded end of the outside edge down the artefact's length which has a single moulded scroll either side of an additional and central moulded rosette. The strap bar in the centre of the buckle frame is narrow and the pin is completely missing. The back of the buckle is flat and undecorated.An identical example is illustrated in Whitehead, R, 1996, 'Buckles 1250 - 1800', page 93, ref no 595.
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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