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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy annular buckle of Medieval date, c. AD 1270 - c. AD 1400). Diameter: 26.3mm; thickness: 4.1mm; weight: 2.62g.The frame is circular and plain and has an external diameter of 26.3mm. It is circular in cross-section with a diameter of 2.1mm. The copper alloy pin is incomplete due to a recent break about mid-way along the shaft. It has a width of 2.3mm. The surviving part of the pin, including the loop, is 'D'-shaped in cross-section, flat on the underside. The loop is firmly fused to the frame by corrosion products.The frame and the pin have a brown coloured patina and the metal is mainly in a stable condition. Similar buckles of this type have been recorded from excavations in London and are now in the Museum of London Collection (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 57-58, fig. 36, refs. 28-38).There is no pin rest and there is no constriction for the loop of the pin so the piece has been classified as a buckle rather than a brooch, using the criterion established by Egan and Pritchard (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 64-65).
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