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Description: | A cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle of post-medieval date (17th century), incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin. The buckle is sub-rectangular in form, with openwork perforations in each corner broadly in the shape of crescents. Between the openwork corners each outer edge features three transverse groove on their upper surface; the lower surface is entirely plain. The frame is steeply internally and externally bevelled on the upper face. At each end of the pin bar, and extending beyond, is a group of three lobed protrusions; the pin is now missing. Dark orange-brown corrosion product around the centre of the pin bar and at the outer edges suggests that the pin would have been made of iron. This example is slightly corroded with a dark grey/green colour, covered with patches of off-white corrosion product. In profile some of the corners have been bent either upwards or downwards. Many buckles of similar form (e.g. Whitehead 1996, 98; ref. 613, and on this database) are composite with a separate spindle. The integral pin bar suggests a date contemporary with such 17th-century buckles, if not earlier than their start date of c. 1660.
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