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Description: | A cast copper-alloy medieval or early post-medieval buckle. Length: 33.0mm; width: 26.5mm; depth: 7.0mm; mass: 9.9g. The frame is rectangular in plan with a central bar. The edges have four deep rabbets with lengthways and transverse grooves visible on the front. The frame is curved in profile. The pin is missing. The buckle has a green patina with traces of a white metal coating visible. Although some soil remains on the buckle, particularly within the rabbets, there is also an unidentified brown substance adhered to parts of the surface, particularly at one end of the central bar and frame. This is possibly iron corrosion/staining. A very similar but incomplete buckle is included as number 443 in: "Dress Accessories 1150-1450", Egan and Pritchard, 2002, p.97 and figure 62. This is from a context dated to c.1270-c.1350. A broadly similar but more robust buckle with rabbets on just one edge is also included as number 111 in "Material culture in London in an age of transition", Egan, 2005 p, p.37 and figure 19. This is from a context dated to c.1500 - c.1550. The buckle recorded here is probably medieval or early post-medieval, c.1250-c.1550.
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