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Description: | An incomplete and worn cast copper alloy composite buckle of Medieval date. It has an oval shape frame with integral, rigid spacer but is missing both upper and lower plates, and the pin, due to old breaks. The frame is flat and D-shaped in section with a swollen outer edge that has a small projecting knop at its centre. The integral spacer is rectangular in form with an incised groove just after the join between frame and spacer, perhaps indicating the point where the now missing plates would have extended to. The centre of the spacer has a larger perforation comprising an elongated oval shaped slot that would have acted as pin slot. This expands to the open forked end to give a stepped profile. The entire buckle measures 36.72mm in width, 21.36mm in height, 2.86mm in thickness, and weighs 3.78g. This is an example of a Medieval buckle that is specific to Medieval England (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: pp. 78-82). Similar examples are noted from Medieval London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: nos. 322-330) and dated to the 14th or early-15th centuries AD.
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