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Description: | A cast copper alloy buckle. In plan the frame is asymmetrical with one trapezoidal shaped loop and the other one semi-circular. The strap bar is sub-trapezoidal in section and the pin is missing. There is iron staining around the strap bar which may suggest the pin was iron. The edges of the frame are bevelled on the exterior edges. The surface of the frame has an incomplete dark green/brown patina. The frame is slightly bent in profile. The frame measures 18.54mm and 14.65mm wide. It weighs 1.2g. The buckle dates to the Post Medieval period. Whitehead (1996 Buckles 1250-1800 Greenlight Publishing) dates this type of buckle to the late 16th to 17th centuries. No. 564 is similar to the recorded example. Egan (Egan, G. 2005 Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition MoLAS Monograph 19) dates two similar, but slightly more ornate, buckles (Nos. 100 and 101) to c. 1630 and c.1650.
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