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Description: | Cast lead alloy (pewter / tombac) two part buckle of post medieval date 1660-1720 AD. The buckle frame is broadly sub-rectangular with rounded corners in plan and sub-rectangular (D shaped) in cross section. In profile the frame is bowed. The frame is drilled at the mid point to take an iron spindle (not surviving). There is no evidence for a recessed pin rest. The mid point of both the long and short edges are curved inwards forming C shaped indentations. Those around the midpoint spindle are further decorated with cast barley sugar style moulding. The exterior surface is heavily silvered. Where abrasion has removed the surface a grey metal is revealed which is laminating. For a close parallels see whitehead page 99 who illustrates many of these, he suggests that they were used at both the knee and for the shoe. They date from the period 1660-1720 ADThe buckle frame measures 35.6mm length, 34.9mm width and is 5.9mm thick. It weighs 9.5 grams
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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