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Description: | findspot, date of find. A copper alloy curved arm from locking buckle, of late medieval or post medieval date. In plan, the arm is broadly U shaped. It has a spherical terminal, attached to a curved arm, which expands in width, and becomes less circular and more oval in section, towards its join with a narrower projection, circular in section. The arm is 29.6mm wide from curved edge to terminals, 27.7 mm long between terminals, with a maximum thickness of 3.8mm (excluding the spherical terminal). The spherical terminal has a diameter of 5.7mm. The arm has a mass of 3.93g. The arm is broadly similar to item 139 in "Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval From Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-1978" (Margeson, 1993, figure 13 and p 24). This is identified as a locking buckle, of which more complete examples, with buckle frames and pins attached to the narrower projection, are identified as items 11 and 12 in plate LXXVII of the London Museum Medieval Catalogue (Ward Perkins, 1940). Ward-Perkins (1940, p 279) explains: "On the axis of the buckle rotates a curved arm, and this arm can be snapped into a groove at one end of the body of the buckle, which locks it in position." Margeson (1993, p24) adds that whilst the exact function is unknown, the locking buckle may have been used to secure a purse or a key to the belt. Ward-Perkin (1940, p.279) states that this form of buckle is of doubtful, but possibly late-medieval in date. The Norwich example is from a 17th century context (Margeson, 1993, p24). A frame from a locking buckle, illustratred as item 117 in Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition" (Egan, 2000, p.37) has been found in a context with ceramics dated to c1550-c1600. It is likely that the curved arm described here is from a medieval or post-medieval date (14th century to 17th century).
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