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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy composite oval framed buckle of Medieval date (AD 1330 ? AD 1450). Length 33.6mm, width 21.2mm and 2.2mm thick. Weight 3.26g.
The plates and the pin are missing. The oval frame is 17.9mm in length and has a maximum width of 21.0mm. The upper face of the frame is bevelled around the sides and the rear of the frame is flat. At the centre of the outside edge of the frame there is a small pointed knop (lip). There is no trace of a pin-rest at this position. The forked spacer onto which the rigid plates were soldered is in the form of two tapering prongs. They are flat on both faces and, in plan, flare slightly from the frame towards the attachment end. At the junction with the frame the prongs are 13.2mm in width and at the attachment end the width is 14.0mm. The spacer has a V-shaped slot near the frame to accommodate the missing pin. On each face of the spacer, close to the frame, there is a small step which the plates would have abutted. The upper and lower faces of the frame and forked spacer have numerous file marks.
The piece is corroded and generally in poor condition. A patina has not survived.
Similar composite buckles with forked spacers have been recovered from archaeological excavations in London and have been dated c. AD 1330 ? c. AD 1450 (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 78-82, figs. 48 and 49). | 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: | 1330
1450 | 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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