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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy and buckle with a gilded hinged (folded) plate of Medieval date (c. AD 1250 - c. AD 1400). Overall length: 46.1mm; overall width: 30.8mm and 4.7mm thick. Weight: 9.96g. The complete cast copper alloy buckle frame is oval and has a narrowed off-set bar. It measures 20.1mm x 29.4mm x 3.7mm. The front is convex although the outer edge is bevelled. At the rear the frame is also convex. In plan, the outside edge of the frame widens evenly and at the centre there is a pin-rest. However, the pin-rest is barely visible, partly due to corrosion. The bar is circular in cross-section and has a diameter of 1.5mm. The incomplete sheet copper alloy plate is folded widthways and the edge are largely broken or damaged. Only a small portion of the rear plate has survived. At the front the plate measures 30.4mm x 30.8mm and has an overall thickness of 4.7mm. The plates are recessed to accommodate the frame and are slotted for the pin (now missing). The slot measures 5.0mm in length and has a width of 3.7mm. The front plate has five rivet holes. Four are complete and one is incomplete. There is one at each corner, close to the recesses. These are circular, have a diameter of 2.7mm and are 17.1mm apart. Just beyond these rivet holes the sides of the plate are cusped. Two slightly larger rivet holes that contain copper alloy rivets are set back further towards the attachment end. These two rivets have crudely shaped domed heads and their shanks are burred over at the rear side. These four rivet holes have been punched through from the front rather than having been drilled and all have large burrs around their edges. A further incomplete circular rivet hole is situated further towards the attachment end along the longitudinal centre-line. This hole is incomplete to an old break. The front of the plate was decorated. At either side of the pin-slot there are small longitudinal grooves. Immediately to the rear of the slot there is a transverse groove that extends the full width of the plate. At various place there are minute traces of punch marks in lines. However so little of this decoration has survived, it is not possible to give a meaningful description. The frame and plate are in poor condition and are mainly covered in loose powdery copper alloy corrosion products. On one side of the pin-slot, the outer face of the fold of the plate has a small deposit of iron corrosion. There is also a deposit of iron corrosion on the underside of the outside edge of the frame. Minute traces of gilding are visible on the front of the plate.
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