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Description: | A cast copper-alloy artefact, probably a medieval buckle. Convention suggests that this object be classified as a buckle rather than a brooch due to the absence of the highly decorative features associated with annular brooches as well as the absence of an obvious pin constriction. The buckle is annular in shape and generally consistent in thickness. In section the frame is a rectangle with rounded edges. On the obverse there is incised linear decoration in three banks of lines, interspersed with equal areas of undecorated frame. There are no obvious pin notches or constriction. The reverse in undecorated. The frame has been bent out of shape following old damage. The attached cast pin appears to have lost its tip. The pin shaft is semi-circular in section. It is 25.7mm in length, 5.1mm in width at the loop and c. 2.3mm in thickness. The pin is undecorated. Annular buckles are difficult to date due to the lack of diagnostic decorative features. Whitehead (1996, 17) offers a wide date range of c. 1250 - c. 1450, however examples found in London illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 57-58) tend to come from late 14th-century contexts. | 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: | 1325
1425 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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