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Description: | A cast copper-alloy single-looped buckle of post-medieval date. The buckle is sub-rectangular in form with an elaborate, expanded outer edge. Central on the outer edge is a moulded rectangle, onto which is a T-shaped protrusion with rounded knop. This is flanked on each side by a moulded lozengiform knop, with a central lozenge in low relief on a lozengiform field, itself delineated with grooving. The rectangle is similarly delineated with grooves. It bears a faceted design. The T-shaped moulding decreases in thickness as it reaches the knop, which is lower still. The lower surface of the outer edge is slightly recessed with a curve below each element. The sides are moulded with flat inner surfaces. The sides are rounded, with a central waist, expanding slightly towards the outer edge, but not as thick as the junction with the pin bar. The pin bar is recessed and square in cross-section. The sides continue beyond the pin bar in rounded knopped terminals, themselves lower than the moulded sides. The buckle has been slightly distorted to one side in plan. The pin bar has also been slightly buckled and the pin is missing. The artefact is a corroded red-brown colour with patches of light-green and yellowy corrosion product. Possible traces of gilt survive in the recesses of the moulded rectangle on the outer edge. A parallel can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996, 29; ref. 155).
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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