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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame and plate, missing the pin. The frame is broadly 'D' shaped in plan, with a wide frame widening around the outer edge and a straight, thinned, strap bar. It is broadly D-shaped in section with a flat back and slightly convex front. It appears plain although the surface is corroded and may have previously been decorated.The attachment plate is formed of a rectangular strip of copper alloy sheet bent in half over the strap bar. It is notched at either side at the bend to fit the frame and has a central slot for the pin. The back plate widens out only slightly from the notched width so is 11.3mm wide compared to 14.4mm of the front plate. There is a single hole through the centre of both plates near the frame for a rivet, now missing. Both plates are broken with the attachment end missing,. The back plate is 10.1mm long and has broken across the rivet hole, the front plate after it at 15.8mm in length. The front plate is decorated with an incised wavey line running along the plate just in from the upper and lower sides. There are traces of gilding on the front.The frame measures 14.7mm long, 20.8mm wide and 2.5mm thick; including the plate it is 27.6mm long, the plate is 1.0mm thick; it weighs 3.09g in total.Similar buckles are illustrated in Egan (2007:87) e.g. no.457 which has additional punched decoration. These examples are categorised as a Meols type 1 and it is suggested they are focused in the 13th and 14th centuries (ibid:86).
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