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Description: | The buckle frame and integral forked spacer from a cast copper alloy single-looped Medieval composite buckle with separate wire pin. The frame is oval with beveled outer edge and a slight expansion into a point at the centre of the outer side. The ends of both prongs of the fork are broken with old breaks. There is a narrow pin bar flanked by slight raised bars on the front which the front plate would have abutted. The forked spacers have a slot between them the width of the pin bar, they step inwards on the inner sides after 8.6mm creating narrower prongs which taper gradually before the breaks. The pin is probably a replacement made from of a short length of wire with a rounded end wrapped 270 degrees around the strap bar. The frame is a dark greyish-green colour and the pin pale green. It measures 32.4mm long, 23.8mm wide, 2.9mm thick and it weighs 4.35 grams.See Egan and Pritchard (1991), p.78-9, fig.48 for similar examples, which they date to the second half of the 14th century to early 15th century (c. 1350-1450 AD).
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