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Description: | A double looped oval shaped buckle made from cast copper. In plan, the buckle is a sub-oval, with only one complete loop remaining, the second loop is only fragmentary. The breaks of the second loop are not recent. The remaining loop is decorated on the upper face of the loops with moulded obliquely angled ridges. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The strap bar is narrowed, and is semi-circular in section. The pin is missing. Around the strap bar there is a buckle plate attached. The plate is formed by a cast copper alloy sheet which is folded in half over the strap bar. The fold has a central rectagnular slot to allow for the pin. The buckle plate is sub-rectangle in plan with concave sides and a sub-trefoil terminal. The upper plate is decorated with a moulded flower with a long stem and wide leaves. The upper and lower plates have two rivet holes with copper alloy rivets in place. The rivet heads are not visible on the upper surface, but they are on the lower plate. The buckle frame, plate and rivets all have a dark brown coloured surface, but this may have been altered by the object being possibly coated in an unknown substance. The buckle and plate measures 45.48mm long and 24.66mm wide. It weighs 9.3g. Whitehead (Whitehead, R. 1996 Buckles 1250-1800 Greenlight Publishing) illustrates similar shaped buckles, No. 423 and dates them to the mid 16th to mid 17th century.
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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