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Description: | A corner fragment of a copper-alloy buckle frame of Post-Medieval date, c.AD1690-AD1720. The frame of this two piece buckle has a 'D' shaped cross section, the back being flat. The cross section has a height of 2.45mm and width of 4.74mm at the break on the vertical arm. The cross section at the break on the horizontal arm of the frame has a height of 4.12mm and width of 5.00mm. Just prior to this break the frame expands, to a thickness of 5.26mm, above and below to accomodate a vertical circular perforation which would originally of held the spindle. The perforation is now blocked by mud. This would have been the centre point of the length of the buckle frame. The fragment has a length of 26.83mm, and as the centre point is known, it is possible to determine that the original total length would have been c.43.08mm. The total width of the original buckle frame is not known but the fragment currently extends to 8.19mm. The corner of the frame is plain and undecorated. The upper surface of the frame over the vertical perforation and to either side is decorated with beaded molding. There would have been five beads, only four survive, and it is likely that these were matched by an identical set of five along the opposite arm of the frame. The beads of this decoration gradually increase slightly in size with the cental bead being largest and also forming the expanded section of frame containing the vertical perforation. This fragment weighs 2.70g.See Whitehead, R. Buckles: 1250-1800. 2003, p.102, no.657.
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