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Description: | An incomplete Medieval cast copper alloy buckle. The frame of the buckle is mostly missing, leaving only the buckle plate with the strap bar of the buckle still attached. The buckle plate is formed of a single pierce of copper alloy sheet bent in half. The plates are rectangular and have two projecting tabs to house the strap bar with a notch in between for the pin. The front plate is wider than the tabs (14.1mm) and notched inwards to meet them, the back plate is only as wide as the tabs (10.2mm) and is also shorter than the front plate (32.4mm including the tabs compared to 36.4mm). The plates are joined by five rivets (four intact and one missing), two near each end and one in the centre. The ones at the strap attachment end arenear the end of the back plate so some distance from the end of the front plate. The rivets are seperately made with large oval heads and hammered flush with the plate at the back. The strap bar is copper alloy, circular in section, 1.6mm in diameter, and broken off by the tabs. Iron concretion between the strap bar and the plate may be the remains of an iron pin.The buckle piece is 6.2mm thick including the rivets, 3.7mm excluding and weighs 5.14 grams. There are traces of gilding on the front and back.Without a frame it is hard to date the plate precisely but the form of rivets and use of gilding suggests a Medieval date.
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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