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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy rectangular double looped buckle frame. The central strap bar is circular in section, narrowed and recessed. The upper and lower sides are moulded with knops at the end of the strap bar and thickened areas at the ends of the outer side of the loop. The outer edges are elaborately moulded into six evenly spaced disc shaped knops arranged in a row. Between the discs are deep recessed grooves with only a relatively thin bar running along the inner edge and holding the side together. Each disk has a central incised horizontal groove running around the outer side. There is traces of very thin iron wire set into semi-circular grooves which run in a row along the the outer edges and fronts of each disk so the wires would have originally joined them together.It is 39.3mm long, 31.5mm wide and 7.6mm thick, it weighs 20.79 grams.A very similar buckle was recorded by Egan and Pritchard (1991:98) No.443 from a late 13th - early 14th century context. SUSS-0D81E4 and SOM-EEA4B5 on this database are also similar, the first is most similar with six rather than five disks and a knop at the end of the strap bar as on this example. Egan (pers. comm.) suggests there was probably some sort or paste or material set into the grooves which has rotted away, perhaps held in place by the wires.
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