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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy Post-Medieval sub-rectangular buckle with drilled frame for a separate spindle dating from about 1720-1790. The frame is convex in cross section. The frame has a moulded band around the inside edge and decoration consists of moulded scrolls, lozenges and circles. The steel loop chape, spikes and tongue are missing. The undecorated reverse has a drilled crevice where the spindle was once placed; the adjacent side has a lump, in which a fragment of spindle remains in situ and a small amount of corrosion is visible at the frame's outer edge. The buckle has a dark-medium green patina with some orange coloured corrosion visible in the design details. For a similar buckle frame, see Whitehead's Buckles, page 108, number 696.Length: 40.4mm; Width: 39.6mm; Thickness: 4.6mm; Weight: 11.69g
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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