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Description: | Part of a late medieval, copper alloy buckle plate dating from 1350-1500AD. It is a strip of sheet copper alloy which would have been folded over to create a double sheet, but one half has broken away at the fold and is missing. In the centre of the folded end is a U shaped notch for the buckle pin. The other end of the sheet has also broken away and any fastening rivets are missing. The plate has a dark green patina. It is 23.6mm long, 16.6mm wide and 1mm thick. It weighs 1.77gm.Buckles with similar plates are illustrated in Whitehead, 2003, Buckles 1250-1800, page 53.
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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