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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate. Only a single plate remains, which is rectangular in plan and a 'U' shaped narrow terminal. The two arms are both broken and originally would have folded over the buckle strap bar. The plate has a single rivet hole at the opposite narrow edge. There is an incomplete cast copper alloy rivet in the rivet hole. The decoration on the upper surface consists of a feint linear high-relief border with a zig-zag design around the rivet hole. The surface of the plate is worn and has an incomplete dark green patina. It measures 26.45mm from terminal to terminal and 15.75mm wide. It weighs 2.11g. The plate is probably of a Medieval date. Egan and Pritchard (Egan G. and Pritchard F. 2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press) illustrate an undecorated buckle plate of a similar size and shape, No. 519 and date this to the latter half of the 14th century. More generally the buckle dates to the 13th to mid 15th century.
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