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Description: | A copper-alloy single-looped rectangular medieval buckle consisting of a cast frame and sheet plate. The frame is rectangular with three transverse grooves on the outer edge, the central of which acting as a pin rest, and a narrowed and offset bar; the pin is missing. The external side of the outer edge is angled; the frame is otherwise flat. The frame measures 13.75 by 15.3 by 2.7mm. It is a dark-grey colour with some pitting. Orange corrosion product in the 'pin rest' suggests that the pin was made of iron; there is further such corrosion product at the frame end of the plate.The rectangular plate is formed of a thin bent sheet folded over with a recessed pin notch. They are recessed very slightly at the frame end to accommodate the frame. Both folds taper gradually. They are connected with an extant rivet, towards the end of the upper fold, and at the very end of the lower fold. This latter has either been broken off just after the rivet, or was shorter originally. At the 'break' it is slightly narrower and more abraded than the upper fold. The terminal of the plate has been bent downwards. It also appears to have been squashed together at the frame end. The plate has a dark-green patina where it survives; there are patches of off-white corrosion product in places, on the lower surface in particular. Similar buckles can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 96; fig. 61).
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