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Description: | Cast copper alloy single-loop spur buckle with an ornate outer edge and an integral plate ending in a hook. The loop or frame is square in plan and narrows to a triangular neck before expanding to the rectangular plate. The frame has a bifid pin rest with a central recess in the middle of the outer bar and a rounded protruding knop at each end of the bar. The side bars of the frame are narrowed and recessed and plano-convex in section. The inner edge of the frame has a circular rivet hole, 3mm in diameter, which the wire copper alloy pin would have also looped through, perforating two incised parallel transverse lines. The plate also has pairs of incised parallel transverse lines, alternating with raised areas, across the middle section and perpendicular incised lines and ridges between this section and the edge of the plate that meets the neck. The integral hook at the other end of the plate curves around above the plate so it is rectangular in plan and circular in profile. The hook would have attached the buckle to the spur through a loop in the spur terminal. There are traces of gilding within the incised lines, and the surface patina is a deep green colour.Whitehead (1996) illustrates similar spur buckles with integral plates ending in hooks on page 33, Nos.184-5, which are dated from c.1250-1400.
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