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Description: | A cast copper alloy Medieval oval single loop buckle frame with an integral forked spacer, dating to c. 1350-1450 AD. The buckle frame has two casting spurs on each side. The recessed bar on the opposite end from the forked spacers would have held a rotating clasp and bar mount secured in place by rivets, now missing. In addition, a plate would have been positioned over the spacers and fixed with rivets, also missing. The remaining frame and spacer segment measures 30.01 mm in total length; the buckle frame measures 13.06 mm wide and 2.18 mm thick; the casting spur connecting the spacer and frame is 12.92 mm wide; finally, the spacer measures 16.86 mm long, 9 mm wide, and 2.02 mm thick. It weighs 2.04 grams. Cf. Whitehead 2003, No. 240.
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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