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Description: | A corroded and incomplete cast copper-alloy medieval buckle with integral plate. The frame is oval with a thickened straight outside edge (W.: 17.65mm). Central on the outer edge is a moulded and grooved pin rest. The pin is now missing, but would have been looped around a circular perforation at the end of the plate, oppposite. This hole has now abraded through. The frame is bevelled both externally and internally.The plate is broadly rectangular. It is bevelled on its upper surface and trapezoidal in cross-section; the lower surface is flat (W.: 13.15mm). There is a central perforation through the plate (Dia.: 3.8mm) for attachment to a strap. At the end opposite the frame the plate attains a width of 16.2mm. At this end there is a pair of circular perforations both abraded through. These holes might also have been for attachment, although the arrangement is unusual. Indeed, the closest comparison found for this buckle is of the type with two loops with integral plate between (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 108; ref.: 491), albeit it is impossible to say with any certainty that this buckle was of that type. The artefact has been bent in profile. It has a dull green/brown colour with overlying lighter green corrosion product.
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