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Description: | A cast copper-alloy buckle of medieval date. The buckle is complete, with a folded composite plate and pin attached. The buckle fram is oval and has an offset narrowed strap bar. The pin is formed from a strip of cut copper-alloy. The plate is formed from a cut sheet of copper-alloy that has had a recess cut for the pin and then been folded over the strap bar. It has been riveted in place with two adjacent copper-alloy rivets at the strap-bar end and a further copper-alloy rivet at the terminal. In between the two sides of the plate part of a leather strap remains, preserved by the leaching of copper into the leather. The buckle frame measures 12.6 mm long, 14.45 mm wide and 2.34 mm thick. The plate measures 20 mm long, 8.96 mm wide, tapering to 6.16 mm at the attachment end. Most of the buckle has a brown patina though the pin is green and there are also areas of green on the plate. A similar example can be seen illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, page 68-70, Fig 274). It is probably 13th to 14th century in date.
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