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Description: | A post-Medieval cast copper-alloy double-looped (c. 1620-c. 1680).The buckle frame is in complete and is sub-rectangular in plan. It is flat and plain on both faces. It has a bar which is also flat. The pin is incomplete as the tip is missing. At each corner of the outside edge there is a lobe of rounded diamond shape. There is a notched projection at each end of the bar although the notches are incomplete. An incomplete projection at the centre of the outside edge may have been similarly notched. The tapering pin loop fully encloses the bar and is 'D'-shaped in cross-section.This buckle is corroded and the upper face of the frame is mainly covered with a dark green patina with traces of tinning. The pin is also corroded and has traces of a similar patina on the loop. The breaks are old.29.2 x 30.1 x 6.7mm. Weight: 4.39Similar buckles have been published and dated c. 1620-1680 (Whitehead 1996: 83-84).A buckle from East Brent, Somerset is a close parallel. See, Portable Antiquities Scheme find: HESH-7C1A51.
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