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Description: | A cast copper alloy double looped buckle of post-medieval date (1660-1720). 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 (surviving but heavily corroded). There is no evidence for a recessed pin rest. The spindle holds a copper alloy pin and a copper alloy folded sheet strap fitting / plate. The pin and strap plate are of a different alloy to the frame and it has corroded a different colour in the soil. The mid point of both the long edges are curved inwards forming C shaped indentations. Those around the midpoint spindle are decorated with cast sub-rectangular moulding. Similar shaped ribs are present on the mid-point of the short sides. There is no evidence of applied surfaces and the metal is a mid - dark greenish brown colour. For a close parallels see whitehead page 99 (specifically 620 and 626) 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 33.6mm long, 22.8mm wide, is 4.5mm thick and weighs 8.39 grams.
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