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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy medieval buckle with intact plate, broken buckle and damaged pin. The frame is single-looped and oval in form (W.: 15.9mm). It has broken along both edges; the diagnostic outer edge is unfortunately missing. The pin bar is narrowed and offset. The internal surface is bevelled slightly. The buckle is slightly worn and corroded with a grey/green patina. The frame and pin are retained in a plate of folded sheet construction. The plate is recessed to accommodate the frame; it also features a pin slot. It flares from the frame end to the attachment end; it also incurves slightly (W. at attachment end: 12.5mm). At the frame end is a pair of rivets, either side of and below the pin, which attach the two halves together. Two rivets survive together towards the attachment end. There is a further central rivet hole on both halves; the end of the rivet survives in the lower hole. The upper surface of the upper half of the plate features a border of rouletted opposing triangles. The plate has corroded slightly but has a general dull grey-green patina. The metal showing through in places is red-brown in colour. The pin is of bent construction, hammered round to form a loop; the point is heavily abraded and misaligned. The artefact measures 41.57mm x 12.51mm, and is 3.04mm thick. It weighs 5.45gms. Buckles of similar form can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 77; fig. 46). They are dated to the late 13th century, although rouletting is also charactersitic of the 14th century AD.
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