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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy single-looped buckle of medieval date, comprising plate, frame and pin. The frame is an irregular D-shape with prominent protruding outer edge such that it tends towards the sub-triangular (42.6 by 22.1 by 3.5mm). The protrusion forms the pin rest and features a shallow central pin groove along its width. There is a small curved decorative lobe at each side of the outer edge. The pin bar is narrowed and offset, with the mouldings at each end slightly recessed. The upper surface is decorated with linear designs within bordered fields no longer adequately discernible on the upper surface. The lower surface of the artefact is flat and plain. The object is of a reddish colour consistent with heating for the application of gilt; some traces still survive. This is also the case for the plate.This latter is of folded sheet construction (40.2 by 19.9 by 4.1mm). It is far wider than it is long; the lower fold is also smaller than the upper. Neither of these characteristics are that unusual. The upper fold is semicircular, with a rounded attachment end. The frame end (the fold) is recessed for the frame to each side and has a central pin slot; the thick wire pin survives in place, folded round. It is triangular, tapering to a point. The recessing is only slight on the lower fold; it is that much narrower (at 33.3mm). It is also shorter (up to 16.5mm) and sub-rectangular in form. The two folds are connected by three extant dome-headed rivets. Two are towards the corners at the frame end, while the third is central closer to the attachment end. This is on the edge of the lower fold that has in fact abraded through. The upper surface of the upper fold is decorated with a border of possible zigzag decoration that follows the edge and the widest point of the frame end (before the side recesses). The gilding mentioned above survives best around the rivet heads. There are also patches of off-white corrosion product, again mostly around the rivet heads, and also light-green corrosion product, particularly on the lower surface. A similar frame can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996, 24; e.g. 112). Whitehead suggests that these buckles date from the 13th and 14th centuries.
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