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Description: | Cast copper alloy single loop D-shaped buckle frame and attached copper alloy sheet buckle plate.The frame has a notched lip in the outer side to act as a pin rest; casting spunes on the top and bottom sides, just beyond the strap bar; and a narrowed and offset strap bar. It is trapizoid in section, wider at the back than the front and 18.1mm long, including the lip, 18.4mm wide and 3.0mm thick at the thickest point.Both sides of the buckle plate are present although both are bent back on themselves. The plate is rectangular with one rivet hole 2.5mm from the end. The plate is complete where it passes round the strap bar of the buckle frame but notched at either side to fit the frame. Just behind this is a large hole, 3.3mm in diameter, in both the top and bottom parts of the plate for the pin, this shows some signs of wear. The front is 13.8mm wide and c. 28mm long; it appears to be decorated with four parrallel straight rows of punched dots running down the lengh, two near the top and two near the bottom and two slightly curved parrallel rows of punched dots running transversly just beyond the pin hole; if the other end or the central field is decorated this cannot be seen under the corrosion. The back of the buckle plate is narrower, 10.3mm wide and again c.28mm long, it appears to be undecorated.The whole piece weighs 4.0 grams including some mud which remains in the bent over plate.The buckle is very similar to those on Whitehead (2003) page 20-21, No. 72 and probably dates to c.1350-1450.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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