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Description: | 1: A complete copper-alloy buckle frame. This buckle frame is D-shaped measuring 30mm by 27mm in size. The bar is offset and narrowed, and the pin still attached to it via an open loop. The pin is copper-alloy and tapers to a point. The outer edge of the frame is expanded and in its centre there is a transverse groove, which acts as a pin rest. This buckle frame dates to the 12th to 14th century.
2: A complete copper-alloy D-shaped buckle frame measuring 21mm by 17mm in size. The bar is offset and narrowed. The outer edge of the frame is expanded. This buckle frame dates to the 12th to 14th century.
3: A complete copper-alloy buckle frame, D-shaped measuring 25mm by 18mm in size. This frame has a narrowed and offset bar and opposing projecting knops beyond the bar. The outer edge of the frame has a central collared knop projecting from its outside edge. It dates to the 14th century.
4: A complete rectangular shaped copper-alloy buckle frame, measuring 16mm by 15mm in size. The bar is slightly offset and narrowed. The outer edge is expaned and decorated with transverse grooves, the central groove appears to be deeper than the others and may have also functioned as a pin rest for the now missing pin. This buckle frame dates to the 14th century.
5: A complete copper-alloy double oval shaped buckle frame, measuring 30mm by 22mm in size. There is a transverse groove in the centre of the bar, where the missing pin would have been attached to it, there is also a transverse groove on the outer edge of one of the loops, which would have acted as pin rest. This buckle frame probably dates to the 14th century.
6: A complete copper-alloy D-shaped buckle frame, measuring 30mm by 23mm in size. The bar is offset and narrowed and the frame is decorated on its rounded front face with evenly spaced transverse grooves. Traces of iron are present on the frame implying that the pin was probably iron. This buckle frames probably date to the 14th or 15th century.
7: A complete copper-alloy buckle frame with an integral plate, 31mm by 18mm in size. The frame is circular in shape and its outer edges are decorated with projecting triangular moulding, there is an old break in the frames edge. Behind the frame there is a circular pin hole through the integral plate. Beyond this the plate rectangular in shape and hollow. This buckle frame and integral plate probably dates to the 15th century.
These buckles are all medieval in date. | 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: | 1250
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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