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Description: | A single looped cast copper alloy buckle and buckle plate. The frame is a sub-?D? shape in plan. At the apex of the loop is concave rather than convex on the outer edge. It is not certain whether this is due to damage or is intentional. The width and depth of the frame remains consistent and this applies to the strap bar as well. The strap bar is sub-rectangular in section. The surface of the frame is abraded and has red copper corrosion. The pin is missing.
Attached to the strap bar is a buckle plate. The buckle plate is a sub-triangular copper alloy plate which is folded in half with the smallest portion of the plate on the underside. The sides of the plate are recessed slightly and there is a slot in the centre of the fold to allow for the pin. A rivet hole is positioned along the edge, in the centre of the upper plate and through the tip of the lower plate. The rivet is missing. The upper plate is decorated with punched circular indentions which form a series of ?V? shapes. There are traces of gilding within indentations. The plate has patches of a light green patina, as well as red copper corrosion.
The buckle frame and plate measures 24.67mm long from the plate terminal to the apex of the frame and 24.83mm wide across the frame. It weighs 3.6g.
Egan and Pritchard (2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press) illustrate a similar buckle (No. 311), and dates these type of buckles to the early 13th to the 14th century. This example has a lipped notch but the dimensions are similar and the overall shape is comparable. | 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: | 1225
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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