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Description: | Post medieval double loop rectangular sword belt hanger buckle, cast copper alloy, incomplete. Just two edges of the frame and part of the central pin bar remain; there is a circular loop (internal diameter 4.7mm) projecting from the centre of the lower edge, at right angles to the frame. The edges are angled outwards towards the reverse; the lower edge (with loop) is rectangular-sectioned and just slightly angled, while the side edge is flat-sectioned and more sharply angled. The broken pin bar is circular-sectioned (diameter c.3mm). Powdery light green surface. The breaks appear to be old. Length (incomplete) 48.6mm, width (incomplete) 29.7mm, max thickness (across loop) 11.25mm, thickness across upper bar 4.34mm, angled side prong width 5.6mm & thickness 2.15mm, internal diameter of loop 4.7mm, weight 6.05g.See Whitehead 1996 (Buckles 1250-1800, Greenlight) p76 no.472 for a similar buckle, dated to c.1500-1630. Whitehead (p.74) notes that 15th century sword belt hanger buckles have the suspension loop in the same plane as the frame, while 16th & 17th century buckles have the loop at right-angles to the frame (as here).
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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