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Description: | An incomplete (only one side remains) cast copper alloy oval buckle plate with an integral spacer from a composite plate, dating from the Medieval period, between c. 1300 - c. 1450 (length: 32mm; width: 12.5mm; thickness: 3.5mm; weight: 1.96g).The incomplete oval buckle frame is D-shaped in section and is integrally cast with an incomplete forked spacer, which would have originally held the buckle plates to either side. A rectangular platform integrally connects the buckle frame to the spacer, which has two decorative parallel grooves on one side only. One forked prong extends outwards from behind this platform but it breaks before it reaches what would have been a pointed tip. On the inside of the rectangular platform there is a recessed bar, which would have originally held the pin (now missing). There is no other decoration or features remaining on this incomplete artefact, which is in a worn condition with most of the original dark green patina now missing due to extensive corrosion and bronze disease.Similar examples are illustrated in Egan, G, 2002, 'Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 3: Dress Accessories c. 1150 - c. 1450', pages 78 - 82, plates 48-9, ref nos 322-330. Egan states that the forked spacers on these artefacts allow the separate sheets to be soldered on at the back and the front to form a hollow plate. These buckles with their distinctive composite plates seem to have been a widespread mid 14th to early 15th century form in this country. A buckle of this form was excavated at the waist of a male body at Leicester.
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