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Description: | A copper-alloy buckle that is silvery-grey in colour suggesting an alloy low in copper metal. The buckle frame is trapezoidal in shape with a sub-oval to sub-rectangular cross-section. The frame has an external length of 15.20mm, maximum width along the leading edge of 24.8mm and minimum width along the shorter width of 21.2mm. The frame has a thickness of 2.7mm. The reverse of the frame is smooth and undecorated. The upper surface of the frame is decorated with shallow grooves set diagonally across the bar of the frame.A buckle plate was originally part of this buckle and seems to have been formed from a single sheet of metal, shaped with a bifid notch and bent over the bar of the buckle frame in order to double back on itself. This plate would then have been riveted in place with the strap attached via what seems to have been a single iron rivet. The shape and measurement of the rivet head is uncertain due to the presence of iron corrosion. The reverse side of the plate has broken off just past the curve of the bifid notch. The plate may originally have been rectangular but the surviving terminal end is now rounded with a semi-circular terminal just past the remains of the iron rivet. All of the edges of the plate are worn and the plate appears to have been made assymetrically. If the plate was originally longer in length then one or more further rivets may have been used set as a single line along the centre of the plate although a single rivet would have worked adequately well enough. The plate sheet has a thickness of 0.9mm, length including the bifid bend of 21.1mm and maximum width of 13.48mm. One of the bifid bends has a width of 6.5mm however the other has a width of only 4.0mm. The notch between these has a width of c.2.4mm and length of 5.5mm. With the reverse half of the buckle plate missing the plate has become detached however it can carefully be fitted back into place and an area of staining on the buckle frame shows where the pin, now missing, is likely to have wrapped around the frame fitting in the bifid notch.Together the buckle frame and plate weigh 5.39g and the total length is c.30.7mm.
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