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Description: | An incomplete cast and sheet copper-alloy composite buckle of Medieval date. The buckle consists of a single looped frame with integral forked spacer and two flat sheets to either side of the spacer forming the buckle plate. The buckle frame is oval-shaped with a pointed lip which is pinched and faintly notched to form a pin rest, in section the frame is flat on both the reverse and the inside edge but rounded at the top and outward-facing sides. A forked spacer extends, unseen, from the strap bar part of the frame and is sandwiched between the two copper-alloy sheets which form the buckle plate which would, when complete, have secured the cloth or leather strap in place. A near complete tapered copper-alloy pin is still in situ curled through a hole or gap at the point where the strap bar of the bucklee frame meets with the forked spacer. Due to corrosion it is not possible to establish which of these two possible arrangements is correct. The sheets forming the plate are incomplete but were rectangular in form, they are secured in place with small circular rivets through both of the surviving corners and to the top and bottom of the plates adjacent to the break, the plates are broken at a point where a circular hole (?possibly part of a quatrefoil) is punched through both plates, this was probably decorative, rather than functional. Whether the faces of the plates were decorated isn't clear, corrosion products on the surface hint at a surface coating such as gilding or a white metal coating. Buckles of this type are dated c.1200-1400.
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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