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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy buckle with integral plate, now bent in half. The frame is oval in plan and section. At the junction between the frame and the sub-rectangular plate are projecting lobed knops. In the centre of the plate adjacent to the frame is a large circular hole with a thin recess bar separating the hole from the main frame. This is a hole for the pin which hinged on the bar. The plate has straight sides that narrow slightly from the frame to the terminal. It has a flat back and slightly convex front. There is an expanded terminal with pairs of lobed expansions to each side. A thinner projection continues from the terminal opposite the main plat, this is bent to one side with a old break at the end and would originally have been hooked over. There are two circular attachment holes in the plate, one in the centre about a third of the way from the frame to the terminal and a second through the centre of the terminal. It is 32.2mm long in its bent condition, the frame is 17.2mm wide, 3.2mm thick, the plate is 10.3mm wide by the frame, 2.3mm thick and the terminal is 12.2mm wide. It weighs 7.05 grams.A similar example with a plain rather than bi-lobed expanded terminal is illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991: 79) which along with others mentioned in the text, is described as a possible spur buckle dating from the mid 13th to mid 14th century.
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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