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Description: | Frame and plate, integrally cast in a single piece, for a buckle of late mediaeval date. The frame itself is smallish, measuring 20mm in height and with a pin-fall of 15mm, and the fore-edge, which is flattened in outline, is slightly ornamented with a small knob or offset at either end of its 16mm span. The thickness of the frame is 3mm and the breadth of its metal 2mm. Two further small knobs form the collar of the frame as it joins (integrally) the shank of the plate, the flat and tapering middle section of the object which is 11mm broad at the junction with the frame, but over a length of some 20mm tapers down to 9mm breadth. This was pierced near the frame to admit the pin, which was of iron as shown by residues. The trailing end of the buckle, still integral with the remainder, is a rounded or oval expansion and terminal to the plate, 18mm in height and 14 in breadth, and therefore set broad-end on the the central tapering bar. A rivet of gauge 1mm appears near the trailing edge, and another is set in the median axis near the narrower end of the central part of the plate. This is a late mediaeval or early post-mediaeval item. The central plate has a later (post-use) bend of about 80 degrees. | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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