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Description: | Complete Post Medieval buckle with cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame, cast strap plate and sheet pin. The frame has two oval loops with slightly widened outer edges. The front and back are bevelled and the front is decorated with a raised rim around the inner side of the loops and raised foliate patterns (the pattern is discribed by Whitehead (see below) as vine scroll). The strap bar is narrowed and recessed with lobed knops at either end, also decorated with leaf shapes. It is 35.7mm long, 28.9mm wide and 2.8mm thick. The pin is probably cut from copper alloy sheet, it is rectangular in section, looped only 250 degress around the bar and narrows to a point at the end. The end is bent back on itself. It is 15.3mm long, 2.4mm wide and 2.2mm thick. The attachment plate is formed of a similar shaped front and back piece cast as one and looped 180 degrees over the strap bar. There is a rectangular pin slot with plain rectangular tabs to either side. Below the pin slot the plate widens slightly before narrowing to a waist then expanding to a tri-lobed terminal. The wider section and terminal are decorated with foliate decoration similar to the frame. There are two circular rivet holes one in the lobed terminal and one in the wider section about half way along. The plate is 30.6mm long, 15.1mm wide and 1.5mm thick.There are traces of a black laquer coating and possibly small patches of tinning. The piece weighs 16.03 grams.Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle (page 68, No.423) which he dates to c.1550-1650. The similarity of these buckles, in particular the tri-lobed buckle plate, to contemporary sword belt hangers (Cf. Read (2001), fig.26, no.373) suggests they are part of a suite of items for a sword belt.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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