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Description: | A damaged and incomplete medieval composite buckle with integral hollow box plate cast in copper alloy (15th century AD). The frame is almost entirely missing apart from part of the side at the junction, bent downwards as a result of of old damage. The extant frame consists of a rectangular strip that curves out very slightly at the external side of which is an elaborate scrolled moulding with recessed areas. At the junction of frame and plate is an oval perforation; although the pin is missing one can see damage it caused pulling the thin strip beyond the perforation. The junction is thickened compared to the frame (5.3mm, compared to 2.35mm), although slightly recessed on its lower surface. Its upper surface features three transverse ridges with grooves between, some interrupted by the perforation. The plate beyond is trapezoidal, widening from a width of 27.0mm at the frame end to 29.8mm at the attachment end. It is hollow to accommodate the strap which was held in place by a pair of rivets at the attachment end. The box plate has been squashed slightly as a result of old damage. On its upper surface the plate is decorated with an incised crude 'elaborate' quatrefoil, crude because one of the petals has not been rendered. Each of the three petals has a central groove. The quatrefoil is described as elaborate due to the smaller protrusions that emerge at the internal cusps. The design is situated, for the most part, within longitudinal border lines. Similar buckles can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996, 37; ref. 218) and Fingerlin (1971, 169; ref. 286). This example has a dark-grey colour with patches of lighter corrosion product and evidence of tinning on the upper surface.
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