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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy buckle with a tinned surface and traces of iron corrosion, dating to the Post Medieval period, between AD 1550 ? 1700 (length: 18mm; width: 40.5mm; thickness: 3mm; weight: 3.55g). The buckle frame is trapezoidal in plan and flat in section. The front and back faces of the buckle are completely covered with tinning as well as being decorated with incised decoration. There is a single continuous and incised border line running along the outside edge on the narrow sides of the frame and then curving inwards to from a decorative point at the tip of the triangular pointed sections at the opposing ends. There is additional incised decoration along the narrow sides of the frame with small and multiple dash lines running to one side of the border line along the length of the outside edge, while a series of small incised lines facing across the length of the artefact are visible inside of this border line. At the triangular pointed tips to either end of the buckle frame, there are small, curved and incised lines on the inside and outside of the curved border line. Additionally, to either end of the width of this buckle frame and on the outside of the triangular tips, there is a substantial amount of iron corrosion, which probably suggests that the strap bar was made of iron, although this and the pin no longer survive. The back of the artefact, although tinned, is flat and undecorated. Overall, the buckle is in a slightly worn but fair condition. Similar examples are illustrated in Whitehead, R, 1996, ?Buckles 1250 ? 1800?, pages 82-3, ref nos 510-515. | 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: | 1550
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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