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Description: | A Medieval cast copper alloy single looped buckle and buckle plate. In plan the buckle frame is an ornate oval with the strap bar being narrowed and off-set, the sides are convex on the exterior and concave on the interior, and the edge opposite the strap bar is thickened and has moulded transverse notches and ridges. The pin is missing. Around the strap bar a buckle plate is folded in half forming a rectangular plate. In the centre, just behind the strap bar there is an oval perforation to allow for the pin. The upper plate is decorated with a border of two parallel fine grooves. Two edges of the upper plate are abraded and incomplete, including the terminal which has an incomplete rivet hole in each corner. The lower plate is complete and has a rivet hole in each corner at the terminal. The plate has shiny light green coloured patina whereas the frame has a mottled mid green abraded patina. The buckle and plate measures 32.05mm long from the frame to the plate terminal, and 21.55mm wide across the frame. It weighs 4.7g.Egan and Pritchard (2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press) dates similar shaped buckles (Nos. 314 and 312) to the late 12th to the late 14th century.
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