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Description: | Medieval cast copper-alloy annular buckle with cast copper-alloy pin. The frame is sub-rectangular in cross section with flat front and back and curved sides and slightly irregular in plan. It is 38.8m in external diameter by 4.6mm wide by 2.6mm thick. The pin is cast with an almost complete loop around the bar at one end, the loop is now broken with corrosion on the old break but is still attached. The pin shaft is square in cross-section with rounded corners and now slightly bent. There is a raised transverse collar on the front at the junction of the loop and shaft and the tip is slightly bevel on the upper side. The pin is 45.3mm long, 11.7mm wide including the loop and 3.3mm thick. The buckle weighs 9.77 grams in total.Egan and Pritchard (1991:57) suggest that annular rings with pins that do not have a pin constriction on the frame should be considered buckles rather than brooches. They illustrate several copper alloy examples similar to this one (e.g. p.58 No.36) and suggest they date from 1275 to 1450 AD.
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