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Description: | Incomplete Post Medieval buckle with cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame and cast strap plate. The frame has one surviving oval loop with slightly widened outer edges, the other loop is almost completely missing with only short stubs projecting from the strap bar. The front and back are angled and the front is decorated with a raised rim around the inner side of the loop and a raised foliate pattern (the pattern is described by Whitehead (see below) as vine scroll). The strap bar is narrowed and recessed with lobed knops at either end, the knops continue the foliate patten.The attachment plate is cast as one and looped 180 degrees over the strap bar. There is a rectangular pin slot where it loops over the bar, with plain rectangular tabs to either side. Below the pin slot the plate widens slightly with a rounded shoulder on each edge before narrowing to a waist then expanding slightly to a three lobed terminal, the end of which is now missing. The back is plain. There are two central rivet holes one near the slot and one at the terminal, which has broken in half, both filled by the remains of iron rivets. Leather is still held between the front and back.Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle (page 68, No.423) which he dates to c.1550-1650. The similarity of these buckles, in particular the buckle plate, to contemporary sword belt hangers (Cf. Read (2001), fig.26, no.373) suggests they are part of a suite of items for a sword belt.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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