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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy, late medieval or post medieval buckle. The frame of this buckle would have been sub circular in plan when complete, but is now semicircular in plan, having lost roughly half of the frame. It is semi circular in section and has a central bar. The frame is worn and chipped, but it is clearly decorated with grooved lines that give it a roughly scalloped effect. The frame is broken just to one side of the pin bar. The breaks are worn smooth and with the same patination as the rest of the object, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The pin bar is slightly wasted. The portion of the frame to either end of the pin bar is not scalloped, presumably for extra strength. The pin is missing. The buckle is abraded to front and back. It has a mid green patina with some flashes of orangey copper disease, again to front and back. It has a surviving diameter of 30.42mm and weighs 3.72g. A similar, though larger example can be found in Margeson, 1993, figure 15, number 159, which dates to between 1400 and 1600. | 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: | 1400
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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