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Description: | A Medieval copper-alloy single loop buckle dating from about AD 1250 - 1400. The cast copper alloy frame is sub-oval in plan with a narrowed off-set bar. The outer edge is swollen and arched and the sides are convex in plan. The pin is missing.The frame has convex curved top and bottom edges and an offset strap bar. There is a moulded, curving bar for the outside edge which is stepped up above the top and bottom sides and is arched in profile, convex curved on the front, concave on the reverse. It has a transverse incised line for a pin rest at the centre.The buckle plate is rectangular and folded at two tabs which wrap round the bar. There is a slot for the pin and recessed corners. The front plate is thicker with a integral projecting rivet in the centre near the attachment end. This rivet runs through the back plate and then is crudely flattened. The front plate appears plain apart from a worn raised transverse line at the base of the pin slot. The crumbling remains of a mineralised leather strap survives between the two plates. This buckle does not fit into the Meols typology, but numerous other examples have been recorded on the PAS database. IOW-364577 cites a published parallel: "This buckle is similar to one recovered from archaeological excavations in Swan Lane, Upper Thames Street, London and has been dated c. AD 1270 - c. AD 1350 (Egan & Pritchard 1991: 76, fig. 46, ref: 316). Compare also SOM-3C20C4 and NMS-5BCFC7.
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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