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Description: | Part of the front of a Post Medieval buckle plate. The plate has two long rectangular tabs that looped over the strap bar with a rectangular pin slot between them. They have broken across the bent end with a patinated break. At the end of the tabs the plate expands out into an oval then narrows abruptly before expanding out slightly to the terminal. Most of the terminal is also missing to an old break. There is a circular rivet hole in the centre of the oval and part of a second where the plate has broken before the terminal. The front has moulded foliate decoration in the style known as 'vine-scroll', the back is plain. It is now 29.7mm long, 15.1mm wide and 1.7mm thick, excluding the bent back part of the tabs, it weighs 2.70 grams.Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar plate attached to a buckle (page 68, No.423) which he dates to c.1550-1650. The similarity of these buckles, in particular the tri-lobed buckle plate, to contemporary sword belt hangers (Cf. Read (2001), fig.26, no.373) suggests they are part of a suite of items for a sword belt. See SOM-0F8134, SUSS-6ADB33 and SUSS-C9A2E0 for other examples on this database.
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