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Description: | Medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame with ornate outside edges and plate with incised decoration.The frame measures 17x18.6mm (internal 11.2x15.7mm) and is similar to Egan 1991 no.297, with a V-shaped notch at the centre for the pin and two grooves either side of a rib, flanked on the outer edge by a flange. The underside of the outside edge is flat.The buckle plate measures 41.5x14mm (the underside measures 40.2x12.9mm). At the open end is one copper alloy rivet intact (with a head 2.7mm in diameter) and another apparantly of iron, now corroded away but leaving the iron corrosion behind.The plate is decorated longitudinally with four lines apparantly chip-carved to give more interest than a flat line. Within the first and second and third and fourth lines are the letters M L(or A) I / I A V, perhaps for AVE MARIA. Nick Griffiths comments "there are a number of these around with garbled inscription, meant to read AVE MARIA in two lines facing inward, but usually the letters are muddled!"Perhaps M L(A) I / IAV stand for Maria Ave, but here the letters are the same way up.The patina of both buckle and plate are a shiny dark green.Weighs 6.02g. Complete length 55.6mm.13th/ 14th century in date.
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