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Description: | Medieval copper alloy composite buckle. Oval frame with projecting triangular lip with pin notch, bevelled outer edge and integral forked spacer. The shape of the spacer is partly hidden by the front and back plates. There is a short, thick rectangular section of the spacer which forms the pin bar and is not covered by the plates. The pin is missing and the pin bar is obscured by thin wire which runs in between the buckle loop and a hole pierced in the plates just above the fork of the spacer. There are four loops to this wire and it was probably a home made repair to hold the buckle plates in place, on other examples these are held by solder, it is not clear how the pin moved past it. The front and back plates are plain with old breaks at the attachment end and probably at the sides. The most complete plate is 18.9mm long by 9.6mm wide and 0.4mm thick. The forks of the spacer are visible at the ends and appear to have been bent outwards. One has an old break but the other appears complete, ends in a point, and is 26.8mm long measured from the frame.The frame is 14.4mm long by 18.6mm wide by 2.9mm thick and the buckle and spacer forks are 43.7mm in total lengh. The overall weight is 5.32 grams.See Egan and Pritchard (1991), p.78-9, fig.48 for similar examples although none with a simialr repair, which they date to the second half of 14 century AD to early 15th century.
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