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Description: | Almost-complete copper-alloy locking buckle, missing only the tip of the pin. The bar is separate, and divides the frame into two unequal loops, one serving only to hold the strap. On the bar swivels a copper-alloy pin, which has a long tube instead of a loop. The frame is rectangular, 28 x 16 mm, with tall decoratively shaped sides which curve up from the smaller loop to accommodate the bar and then down again with a concave curve to the outer edge of the larger loop. This is L-shaped in cross-section, with a grooved pin rest on the wide raised part and then a narrow outer flange. The bar continues out beyond the frame, widening and curving into a locking arm which bends round and ends in a ball terminal decorated with curving oblique grooves. The arm would originally have sat on the narrow flange, but it is now bent slightly out of shape. This is a typical example of the locking buckle; they date to the 14th century. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1300
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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