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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy annular buckle with twisted copper alloy pin. The frame is oval in cross section and plain apart from a very slight thickening at the point where the pin was attached (shown by the slightly different coloured corrosion at this point). It is 32.5mm in external diameter by 3.5mm wide by 3.3mm thick; it weighs 6.26 grams. The pin is made of a very thin strip of copper alloy which was bent over the frame and then the two ends twisted together along the whole lengh of the pin. The tip and part of the loop over the frame have broken. It is 22.7mm long, by 1.8mm in diameter at the twisted lengh and weighs 0.33 grams.Egan and Pritchard (1991:57) suggest that annular rings with pins that do not have a pin constriction on the frame should be considered buckles rather than brooches. They illustrate several copper alloy examples with similar frames (e.g. p.57 No.38) but none with a similar twisted pin. Most seem to have been originally supplied with cast pins but these were often broken and replaces by wire or sheet pins. The twisted pin on this example is likely to be a home made replacement.
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