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Description: | Incomplete double oval-looped cast copper alloy buckle frame with an incomplete copper alloy buckle plate. Post Medieval (AD 1600 ? AD 1700). Length 45mm, width 27mm and 6.5mm thick. Weight 10.93g. The loops were probably identical in plan and semi-circular in cross-section. However the majority of the loop on which the pin tip rested is missing. The breaks have occurred close to the pin bar and both of the breaks are old. The outer edge of the surviving loop is slightly wider than the sides of the frame. The frame is 22mm in length and 27mm in width. The offset and narrowed pin bar is circular in cross-section, about 2,5mm in diameter. At either end of the bar is a small knop. The frame is decorated on its upper surface with a moulded, foliate design, now worn and mostly illegible. The copper alloy pin is semi-circular in cross-section and its loop fully encircles the bar. The shank tapers to form a sharp tip. The buckle plate has a surviving length of 30mm and has a maximum width of 13mm at the fold. The leaves are about 1.5mm in thickness. It has a relatively large rectangular pin slot which measures 9mm in length and 3.5mm in width. The sides of the plate are cusped so that in plan, it is roughly hour-glass shaped, although the attachment end of each plate leaf is missing and has old breaks. Near the attachment end, at the centre, is a small rivet hole which penetrates each plate leaf. This rivet hole is filled with iron corrosion and the hole is about 2.2mm in diameter. Although the rivet has not survived, a fragment of brittle dark brown leather has survived between the plate leaves at this position. The thickness of the leather is about 2mm. The front face of the plate is decorated with a moulded, foliate design and the reverse of the frame and plate is plain. Although corroded in places, a mid-green patina has survived. On the front face of the frame and also the plate are traces of black lacquer. The buckle may have been associated with a sword belt. | 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: | 1600
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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