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Description: | Near complete cast copper alloy Medieval buckle with integrally cast plate. The buckle has a single enlongated oval loop with the outer edge bowed slightly inwards. The frame is irregular in section. The integrally cast plate is flat and rectangular in section. There are two punched holes, one larger than the other aligned along the midpoint of the plate where it meets the frame. The larger (outer) hole would have carried the, now missing, pin. The adjacent smaller hole would have been used to attach the buckle to the strap. A further two holes, one at each outer corner of the plate, both of which are now broken, would also have been used to secure the plate to a strap. The reverse of the buckle is plain and the front of the buckle carries traces of gilding, a criss-cross lozenge pattern is discernable with 4 small incised circles arranged within each lozenge. Although no exact parallel could be found buckles of similar type are dated to the 13th to 14th century, c.1200-1400.
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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