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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy buckle of Medieval date, late thirteenth/early fourteenth century (c. AD 1250 - c. AD 1350). Length: 30.7mm; width: 28.4mm and 7.6mm thick. Weight: 9.26g.The buckle frame is complete and part of the plate is missing due to old breaks. The cast frame is oval in plan, almost 'D'-shaped. The outer face is strongly convex and the inner face is slightly convex. At the centre of the outside edge there is a lipped pin-rest. The bar is slightly narrowed and off-set.The pin, now fused to the bar due to corrosion, is made from sheet copper alloy. It tapers from the loop towards the tip. The loop curls around the bar so that its end almost makes contact with the pin shaft.The plate appears to have been cast and the hinge end is folded widthways in a U-shape to accommodate the bar of the frame. There is a rectangular pin slot at the hinge end and at this end the plate is recessed to enable the buckle frame to revolve freely. The front part of the plate is mainly rectangular in plan, 28.4mm x c. 14.0mm. It divides into three elements, each of which would have extended to the attachment end. However, these three elements are incomplete due to breaks. The three terminals at the attachment end may have been similar to those on a buckle plate from Arreton Parish, Isle of Wight. See Portable Antiquities Scheme find: IOW-969AE4. Each extension has roughly parallel sides. The front part of the plate has three decorated areas which are on the same longitudinal alignment as the three extensions. The decorated areas on the outer extensions consist of punched (probably) parallel grooves containing similarly inscribed curvilinear grooves. These grooves form a "wavy" pattern. The decoration on the central extension is formed by two parallel grooves containing a line of small circular depressions. This decoration also appears to have been stamped rather than inscribed. The back plate is much smaller than the front plate, being only 11.3mm in length and 20.7mm in width. The sole purpose of the back plate was to form a U-shape to take the bar of the buckle and it does not seem to have been secured to the belt or strap by rivets or by any other means.A similar buckle complete with its plate has been recorded from Litcham Parish, Norfolk. See Portable Antiquities Scheme find: NMS-61E218.
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