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Description: | An enamelled cast copper alloy buckle of mid to late seventeenth century date. The rectangular double loop buckle measures 39.6mm by 26.4mm by 3.3mm and weighs 9.8g. The outside edges are trefoil-shaped and there are external knops at each end of the narrowed strap bar. The pin is missing. The front of the buckle is decorated with moulded scrollwork and in between the raised scrolls the recesses are filled with black and white enamel.According to Geoff Egan, the manufacurers of these buckles also produced enamelled buttons, stirrups and ornate candlesticks. This material was being made at the time of the Commonwealth and later (if not slightly earlier as well). The range was formerly known as 'Surrey enamels' from a mistaken attribution to a foundry there, but it has recently come to light that known makers in London were responsible. See C. Blair, 'Surrey' enamels reattributed' in the Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, vol. 13, 2005, (part 1) pp. 2-9; vol. 14 (part 2 with A. Patterson), pp. 10-21.A similar although incomplete buckle from Horsham St Faith and Newton St Faith, Norfolk has been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database (NMS-CDABE7).
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