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Description: | Near complete cast copper alloy Medieval buckle with plate. The buckle is a single loop sub-rectangular frame with an expanded outer edge. The outer edge is decorated with five irregularly spaced transverse grooves and has an additional shorter central groove as a pin rest. The sides of the frame are bowed outwards slightly and have 2 casting spurs on each side. The bar is narrowed and offset. The plate, which is tongue-shaped, consists of a single undecorated sheet of copper alloy folded around the bar with two punched holes along the mid line, the hole nearest the buckle loop probably served to secure the pin whilst the lower one served as a rivet hole. The remains of woven textile are still present around this lower rivet and between the two sides of the plate.For a good parallel for this buckle frame (without the plate) see number 135, page 27 in Whitehead's ''Buckles 1250-1800". Buckles of this type are dated, c.1350-1400.
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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