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Description: | A slightly incomplete cast copper alloy oval buckle with ornate outside edge and attached sheet copper alloy buckle plate, dating to the Medieval period, between AD 1250 - 1400 (length: 50.5mm; width at buckle: 19.5mm; thickness at buckle: 6mm; weight: 6.6g).The plain and undecorated complete buckle frame (length: 19mm; width: see above; thickness: see above) is oval in plan and D-shaped in section. The outside edge of the buckle is decorated with a protruding sub-rectangular platform, which is decorated with one incised line at one side and three more incised lines in the centre where the complete cast copper alloy pin rests. The inside edge/ bar of the buckle frame is flat as well as being offset and narrowed to hold the complete buckle plate. The pin (as mentioned above) is complete (length of pin: 20.5mm; width of pin: 3mm; thickness of pin: 2mm) and is looped around the narrowed strap bar to hold it in place. Overall, the buckle is in a slightly worn and fair condition with a dark green patina.The incomplete sheet copper alloy buckle plate (length: 35mm; width: 13.5mm; thickness: 1mm), which is folded back on itself from the buckle (although the back of the plate is shorter than the front), is rectangular in plan, flat in side section and slightly tapers inwards away from buckle. The plate is recessed for the frame where it is still attached/ looped around the buckle frame.The front of the plate is decorated along the outside edges of its length and at the opposing end from the buckle with two rows/ lines of closely punched triangular recesses. There is no other decoration. There are three rivet holes (diameter: 2.5mm) that occur in the plate. The first rivet occurs in the centre immediately below the slot of the pin. The other two (which are not level with one another) occur at the opposing end from the buckle inside the border decoration a line down the central length of the plate. No rivets remain. Overall, the buckle plate is in a slightly worn but good condition with a dark green patina.Similar buckle frames are illustrated in Egan, G & Pritchard, F, 2002 edition, 'Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 3: Dress Accessories c. 1150 - c. 1450', pages 72-3, ref no 292 and pages 77-8, ref no 319. Egan and Pritchard suggest that the basic form of oval buckles with ornate outside edges and plates were a 'long-standing fashion, in use from the late 12th to the late 14th centuries' (page 76).
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