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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle or folding clasp with sheet plate, c.1350-1400. Rectangular frame with slightly convex sides and constricted outer edge, possibly to take a now missing roller; there are no transverse lines decorating the sides of the frame. There is no pin, but behind the strap bar there is iron corrosion which is probably the remains of an iron pin within a piercing - suggesting this is a buckle rather than a folding clasp. Folded sub-rectangular sheet plate which tapers slightly towards the attachment end. One small (diameter 1.8mm) copper alloy rivet at the attachment end. Possibly remains on the strap within the plate, but this is now obscured by soil. Grey-green patina. Length 30.4mm, width across frame 10.5mm, width across plate 7.3mm, thickness across frame 2.7mm, diameter mm, weight 1.68g.The probable iron pin suggests that this is buckle rather than a folding clasp, although it is very similar to those (see Egan 1991 ('Dress Accessories', HMSO) p.116-7 & p.96). Folding clasps appear to date from c.1270-1450, while the buckles appear to date from 1350-1400.
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