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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle of post-medieval date. The frame of the buckle is sub-rectangular with angled corners. The edge of the upper surface is rabbeted. Each side of the internal edge curves outwards slightly at its centre. The frame has two central drilled holes which are filled with corrosion product from the remains of the axis bar which is missing. In profile the frame is bowed. The buckle is a dull bronze colour and almost all of the patina has been removed exposing the original material on the front of the artefact, on the reverse there are patches of iron corrosion product. Similar buckles can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996; 102); Whitehead suggests that these buckles date from the period 1690 to 1720 AD, and were used as shoe or knee buckles (hence the curved profile).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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