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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy medieval single-looped buckle with integral plate that ends in a hook. The frame has lost its outer edge and, although the sides have been bent outwards slightly, was probably rectangular in form (W.: 16.95mm). It is distinguished from the plate by a pair of transverse incisions at the edge. The external edge is gently bevelled, as are the edges of the plate; the lower surface of the buckle is flat. The triangular pin survives, looped around a circular perforation at the junction of frame and plate. It has a semicircular cross-section. At the beginnings of the plate, nearest the frame, it curves quickly inwards, to a waist 7.65mm wide c. 8.85mm beyond the loop. From the waist the plate curves out to a width approximating to that of the frame in a section with slightly bowed in sides (W.: 15.5mm). This section appears to have had a central perforation within which a broken rivet survives. This can be compared with separately riveted strap-loops noted on the published buckles below. Emerging from the centre of the back of the section is an integral hook, broken at its tip, that curves downwards slightly before travelling up beyond the plane of the plate. This is rectangular with rounded corners in cross-section.Buckles whose integral plates end in a hook can be found illustrated in Whitehead (2003, 33) where they are date to the 13th and 14th centuries AD, and include two examples with separately riveted perpendicular strap-loops. No direct parallel has been found in terms of form for this example, although ref. IOW-280824 on this database is close. The artefact has corroded to a dull dark-green colour with patches of yellow-brown corrosion product, and an area of brighter green on the lower surface. The pin, evidently of a different alloy, is an orange-brown colour with traces of mid-green corrosion product.
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