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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper alloy oval-looped buckle of Medieval date (c. AD 1350 - c. AD 1400). Length: 41.1mm; width: 50.6mm and 4.6mm thick. Weight: 26.51g.This fragment consists of about half of the outside edge, one side and a small portion of the bar. Pin missing. It is flat at the front and convex at the rear. The pin-rest is incomplete due to an old ragged transverse break and the surviving side of the pin-rest is formed by a distinct right-angled step. The break on the bar has occurred through a circular hole (or perhaps a slot). At the pin-rest the outside edge has a width of 14.0mm and the width of the bar at this break is 6.1mm.The front is decorated with three panels of an abstract design consisting of linear and curvilinear grooves with small random punched circles and plain fields. Each face has a well developed shiny green patina although there are some small areas where bronze disease is apparent. A similar shaped buckle decorated with small punched circles has been recovered from archaeological excavations at Billingsgate, London. This London example was from a context dating c. 1350-1400 (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 'Dress Accessories: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London'. 69, fig.41, ref. 263). However, note that this buckle does not have a circular hole in the bar.Compare with a buckle fragment also from Shorwell Parish, Isle of Wight. See Portable Antiquities Scheme find: IOW-F71B17.
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