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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy asymmetrical double looped buckle of Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1575 - c. AD 1700). Length 30.8mm, width 20.1mm and 6.7mm thick. Weight 6.69g. The pin is largely missing. In plan, one loop is rectangular in plan and the other loop is D-shaped. The front of the frame, including the bar, is convex and the rear face is flat. The outside edge of the inner D-shaped loop has a protrusion consisting of two small horns. The bar is D-shaped in cross-section, flat at the rear. At each side of the frame, opposite the bar are two minor knops. A crudely made copper alloy chape, sub-rectangular in plan, has a maximum width of 11.0mm. and at each side is a small cusp making it 'fiddle-shaped' It tapers slightly towards a narrowed shaft, about 10.0mm in length, that probably terminated with a hook. However, the curving part of the hook is missing due to an old break. The loop of the iron pin survives as a mass of iron corrosion. The frame and the chape are in fair condition and have a patchy mid-green patina and the iron part is severely corroded and in poor condition. The buckle is probably for a shoe. A similar buckle is illustrated by Whitehead. This illustrated buckle, which is dated c. 1575 - c. 1700, has small protruding horns at each end of the bar and also at the outer edge of the D-shaped loop (Whitehead 1996, 93, ref. 592).
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