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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame and with plate, the pin is missing. The frame is rectangular with a narrowed strap bar and slightly longer, widened, outer edge. The outer edge is triangular in section with a flat inner side and bevelled front and back, at the centre of one side of this edge are three transverse grooves, the middle one larger, on the other side are two incised lines in a V shape. On the outer side of the top and bottom edges are two raised transverse lines, one near the strap bar and one near the outer edge on both. The strap plate is formed of a simple piece of copper alloy sheet looped over the strap bar; it is rouughly rectangular but narrows slightly towards the attachment end where there is a single, central seperate copper alloy rivet; at the other end there is a pin slot and the corners are cut out to fit the frame.The frame is 17.7mm long, 16.1mm wide and 4.0mm thick. The plate is 20.9mm long, 12.1mm wide and 3.9mm thick including the rivet. It weighs 6.53 grams in total.This is a Meols type C, very similar to p.98-9, no.710 which is dated to the late 14th century (Egan 2008).
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