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Description: | An incomplete Post Medieval cast copper alloy buckle. This fragment is from a sub-oval, double loop 'spectacle' buckle, and consists of one complete loop, the bar, and the lower half of the pin.The frame is decorated with openwork trefoil (debased fleur-de-lis) shaped knops on the outer edge of each loop, and knops either end of the strap bar. The front of the buckle is rounded and the back flat, being a shallow D-shape in cross-section. The reduced bar is D shaped in cross-section The pin is formed from a folded piece of flat copper alloy, and is decorated with a grove along its centre. There is no recess / notch on the frame from a pin-rest. The buckle has a dark green patinaFragment length 32.2mm, width 30.9mm, thickness 2.2mm. Weight 4.68gA similar, but slightly more elaborate buckle is illustratedin Whitehead (p70 - No 437) which he dates to the period 1550-1650.
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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