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Description: | Post Medieval cast copper-alloy double loop buckle frame missing 90% of one loop to old breaks. The remaining loop is oval and expanded at the centre of the outer edge into a projecting point on the outer side. It is triangular in section with a flat back and inner side and angled front. The strap bar is narrowed with lobed knops on either end. The loops are decorated all the way around with regularly spaced deeply incised transverse lines. There extensive traces of tinning on the front and back where the surface is not corroded. There is the loop of an iron pin corroded around the strap bar, the rest of the pin is missing. It is now 38.3mm long and 35.4 wide and 3.2mm thick and weighs 7.82 grams.Whitehead (2003:62) illustrates a similar but smaller example, no.368, which he dates to c.AD 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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