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Description: | An incomplete Medieval cast copper-alloy buckle plate (c. 1270-1350).The plate is sub-rectangular in plan. At the loop end it is straight and broken and has a pin slot/hole measuring 5.62 x 4.57mm. Close to this hole there is another smaller hole, 1.50mm in diameter. At the opposite end, the sides of the plate taper abruptly then expand to form a trefoil-shaped projection. At the centre of the trefoil there is a copper-alloy rivet. The front of the plate is decorated with a voided saltire cross which is pierced at it centre by the aforementioned smaller hole.This object is in poor condition and the corrosion is active. It has light green corrosion products and the red metal is showing through the corrosion. Patches of a drab olive green patina can be seen on both faces. The breaks are old.Length: 26.80mm; width: 3.44mm. Weight: 2.93g.This buckle can be compared with a similar object from a late 13th- or early 14th-century context in London, which is identified as a strap-end (Egan and Pritchard 1991: 132, fig. 85, ref: 608). The London example has completely lost its buckle frame, but its identity as a buckle is suggested by the large circular hole at one end which is hard to explain except as a pin hole. There are comparable examples on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database: DOR-1E0744; HAMP1875; IOW-F7C472; NMS-71AE82; NMS-C191D1 and WILT-4D7AE1.
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