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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy oval medieval buckle frame with ornate outside edge. The outer edge has a knop beyond the frame between which four transverse ridges create three grooves; the central groove would have acted as a pin rest. The pin bar opposite is offset and narrowed. The pin has survived looped around the pin bar. It is of cast construction with a semicircular cross-section and flat reverse. There is a small transverse ridge before the loop and a slightly grooved tip at the other end of the pin. The internal and external faces of the frame are bevelled such that it has a triangular cross-section with rounded corners; the reverse is flat. The buckle has corroded to a red-brown colour consistent with metal objects heated for gilding; traces of gilt have survived particularly in the grooves of the outer edge. In London similar buckles have been found in contexts dating from the 12th to 14th centuries. Duly a wide date range is offered for this example. | 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: | 1150
1350 | 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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