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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate of probable Medieval to Post-Medieval date. The surviving fragment is flat, square in shape and terminates in old breaks at the attachment end. It has rectangular frame recesses and a large, circular pin slot. Between the pin slot and frame recesses are two projecting lobes that curve around to the back face of the plate and would have allowed the now missing buckle frame to hinge. The plate has a series of circular perforations, possibly for rivets to hold the buckle in place, but perhaps simply decorative. These consist of a single hole behind the pin slot, with two set slightly further towards the attachment end and to either side of the first hole. The plate has cracked between the first hole and the pin slot, and an additional small perforation is noted to one side of the pin slot, perhaps a later addition to ensure the plate stayed attached to the strap. Where the plate terminates appear to be the start of additional perforations, but it is uncertain precisely how many or what form they took. The back face is relatively flat, although the punching of the perforations leaves projecting areas of copper alloy. It measures 18.01mm in height, 20.69mm in width, 1.60mm in thickness, and weighs 1.64g. This buckle plate is of probable Medieval or Post-Medieval date, with similar, although by no means identical, parallels indicating a date in the 15th-16th centuries AD (Biddle, 1990: nos. 1198, 1208). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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