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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy trapezoidal shoe or knee buckle of Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1660 - c. AD 1720). Length: 33.1mm; width: 19.1mm and maximum thickness: 3.0mm. Weight: 2.94g. The spindle (bar) and pin are missing. The frame is symmetrical in plan. It is moulded at the front, flat and plain at the rear and has slightly concave sides. When viewed from the side, it has a downward curving profile. The frame is drilled for a separate iron spindle which is lost. However, iron corrosion survives within the each spindle hole and iron staining is present on the frame close to each hole. On the front of the frame, at each side where it is drilled, there are two flat knops, one at either side of the drilled hole (for the spindle). At the front, each outside edge has a moulded floral motif serving as a pin rest.Due to corrosion, the buckle frame is in poor condition and has traces of a mid-green patina. No evidence for tinning. A similar buckle has been dated c. 1660 - c. 1720 (Whitehead 1996, 99, ref. 616).
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