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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy double looped buckle frame of later Medieval date. Half of one of the rectangular loops survives intact, the remainder missing due to old breaks. The surviving frame is rectangular in form with a moulded, thickened outer edge that is oval shaped in section and thinner, offset sides that are sub-triangular in section. The thickened outer edge has five moulded lobes separated by four deep rabbets. Each of the lobes has two transverse grooves as well as vertical grooves on its upper and outer edges. The vertical grooves contain the remains of lengths of inlaid wire, possibly formed from a different copper alloy or even iron, that would have run the length of the edge forming fine openwork decoration. The sides of the frame are offset from the outer edge and have extensive toolmarks. Only a short section of the lower edge survives intact, terminating in old breaks very shortly after it joins the outer edge. In contrast, the upper edge runs to the centre of the frame where it expands to a moulded square lobe. This is decorated on the front face with a moulded floral or rose motif and on its inner surface has the remains of the now missing oval shaped axis bar. Presumably a second similar lobe would have been visible where the lower side joined the bar.The entire object measures 47.36mm in height/length, 20.08mm in width, 5.10mm in thickness, and weighs 9.02g.This buckle frame is of Medieval date and of slightly unusual form. A rectangular buckle frame with similar rabbetted edges is noted from Medieval London in contexts dating to c.1270-1350 AD (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: no. 443). However, a closer parallel, complete with inlaid wire on the outer edge, is noted from Norwich in contexts dated to c.1550-1700 AD (Margeson, 1993: no. 154). The floral motif on the current example is reminiscent of double looped buckle frames of the later Medieval to early Post-Medieval periods (c.1400-1600 AD). This, combined with the similarities to the Norwich example in particular, suggest the buckle is of probable later Medieval to early Post-Medieval date, perhaps in the 15th-16th centuries AD.
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