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Description: | Medieval cast copper-alloy annular buckle with cast copper-alloy pin. The frame is a flattened oval in cross section with flat front and back and convex curved sides and slightly wider and thicker to one side than the other. At the minimum it is 4.2mm by 2.7mm and at t maximum 5.2mm by 3.6mm. It is 45.3m in external diameter. The pin is cast, rectangular in section with a thinned end which has been bent over the frame and the end bent outwards. The tip is slightly thinned at the end with an undercut shape to fit over the frame. A design is stamped one third of the way towards the pin from the loop, it is of several annulets arranged with a central one surounded by six others in a sexfoil. It is badly corroded with only patches of the original green patina. The pin is 47.5mm long, 6.6mm wide including the loop and 3.4mm thick. The buckle weighs 19.81grams in total.Egan and Pritchard (1991:57) suggest that annular rings with pins that do not have a pin constriction on the frame should be considered buckles rather than brooches. They illustrate several copper alloy examples similar to this one (e.g. p.58 No.38 with an iron pin) and suggest they date from 1275 to 1450 AD.
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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