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Description: | A worn cast copper-alloy buckle frame of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. It has a flat oval shaped frame with expanded outer edge and slightly narrowed bar. Hinging around the bar is a separately cast pin that is flat, reactangular in form and has a slightly tapering point. The buckle has a separately cast plate that is rectangular in form with upper and lower plate of equal size, rectangular pin slot and two separately cast copper-alloy rivets with flattened heads at the attachment end. The entire object has worn and corroded surfaces with evidence for active copper-alloy corrosion, the frame folded back against the plate. It measures 23.56mm in width (folded), 26.74mm in length (folded), 7.30mm in thickness and 4.95g in weight. This buckle frame is of probable Medieval to Post-Medieval date, c.14th-17th centuries AD. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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