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Description: | A cast copper-alloy buckle or brooch of Medieval date. It has a small circular frame that is hexagonal in section and on one side retains the corroded remains of the pin. The pin itself has a cast copper-alloy head that is globular in form with a central circular aperture and a projecting collar. Beneath the collar extends the corroded remains of an iron shaft that appears to be square in section and tapers to an incomplete tip. The pin has suffered from extensive iron corrosion and is currently fused to one side of the frame. The entire object measures 16.56mm in length, the frame measures 14.65mm in external diameter and 10.15mm in internal diameter, 2.13mm in thickness, and the entire object weighs 2.59g.This small loop is probably a buckle frame although it may equally have functioned as a small brooch. It finds a similar, silver, parallel from London described by Egan and Pritchard as a buckle (1991: no. 211), as well as other related examples in copper-alloy (1991: nos. 27-30). It is of Medieval date, c.13th-14th centuries AD.
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