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Description: | The buckle frame and integral forked spacer from a cast copper alloy single-looped Medieval composite buckle. The frame is oval with bevelled upped and lower sides and a knop in the centre of the outer edge marking the transverse incised pin rest. The frame is broken to one side of the pin constriction and the tip of one of the prongs of the fork has broken, both old breaks, and the forks are bent outwards. The pin is missing. The part of the forked spacers closest to the strap bar have three steps cut into the copper alloy prongs before they extend out into the long fork. This stepping occurs on the inner edges of the fork. Both the front surface of the buckle and the reverse are slightly bevelled. The artefact is a dark greyish-green colour. It measures 51.2mm long, 27.6mm wide, 1.9mm thick and it weighs 7.49grams. It probably dates from c. 1350-1450. See Egan and Pritchard (1991), p.78-9, fig.48 for similar examples, which they date to the second half of 14 century AD to early 15th century.
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