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Description: | A cast copper alloy buckle chape of Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1720 - c. AD 1770). Length: 65.9mm; width: 50.6mm; thickness: 5.7mm; weight: 18.37g.In plan, the chape frame has a 'cooking pot' shape and has a single internal spike. It has separate iron spindle to hold the 'pitchfork'-shaped tongue. On the underside of the chape frame, at the inside edge, there is a maker's mark in Roman capitals: DRAFFETT.There is a patchy dark green patina in places. Where a patina has not survived the surface of the metal is a dull reddish brown colour.The buckle frame that would have attached to this type of chape would have been for a Georgian shoe buckle, dating from the 1720s to the 1770s. 'Shoe buckles were fastened further down the instep as they increased in size after 1720. The loop chape with two inner spikes and a pitchfork double tongue was the most widely used method of securing medium to large sized shoe buckles between c. 1720-1770' (Whitehead, 1996, p.103). It should be noted, however, that this chape has only one spike.The chape and tongue have traces of a mid-green patina. The object has been subject to heating and then coated in lubricating oil.A buckle chape with the same maker's name: DRAFFETT has been recorded from Godshill Parish, Isle of Wight. See Portable Antiquities Scheme find: IOW-9D8E91.
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