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Description: | A corroded, incomplete double-looped buckle of early post-medieval date. The frame was formed of two conjoined ovals, but only vestiges of the loops survive at the pin bar. This latter is narrowed and circular in cross-section and protrudes beyond the frame at both ends in pointed knops.A thin, pointed wire pin survives in situ, but now bent to one side, around the pin bar and retained within the recesses of the buckle plate. The plate is formed of one copper-alloy sheet, cut and bent over on itself (L.: 30.7mm). From the pin bar it continues in plain, rectangular tabs on either side until expanding slightly to a width of 14.6mm before narrowing to a waist of 8.6mm. It expands to a flat terminal (W.: 11.0mm). There are remains of two rivet holes, one at each wide point mentioned. They are filled with orange corrosion product from the connecting rivets, now both missing. Due to corrosion it is difficult to tell whether the plate was moulded with foliate patterns, as many similar buckles were. The similarity in decoration to some sword-belt fittings should be noted.The metal is all of a red-brown metal largely covered in light-green corrosion product. The plates have been squashed together slightly at the attachment end as a result of old damage. The nature of the metal, the double-looped frame and the decoration suggest a date for this buckle in the 16th or 17th centuries, probably related to sword-belt fittings (cf. Read 2001, 43; ref. 373). Parallels can be found on this database including one from East Sussex (SUSS-BA5647), and in the literature (e.g. Whitehead 2003, 68; ref. 423). It has been found in the vicinity of a similar buckle - HAMP-58F034.
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