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Description: | A cast copper-alloy buckle with plate of Medieval date. It is as Meols type 11, with oval frame, offset and narrowed bar, and expanded outer edge that has projecting knops to either side and a central sheet roller decorated with double transverse ridges at its centre. The separately cast plate is flat, rectangular in form and folded to create an upper and lower plate of equal size. It has a large central, circular aperture at the frame end through which the now missing pin would have hinged, and two circular rivet holes at the attachment end retaining separately cast copper-alloy rivets with flattened heads. The front face of the upper plate has incised decoration comprising single borders along each side and a central line of rocker decoration running the length of the plate. The entire object has a green patina and in its current form the buckle frame is folded flat agains the plate. It measures 20.74mm in width (at frame; 11.35mm at plate), 22.89mm in length at plate (17.99mm at frame), 10.04mm in thickness and 4.56g in weight.This buckle is of Medieval date with a similar parallel noted from London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: no. 317). It is of probable 14th century AD date. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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