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Description: | A damaged fragment from a cast copper-alloy rectangular double-looped buckle frame of medieval to post-medieval date (c. AD 1350-1700). The buckle would have had two rectangular loops that share a pin bar and retains a central, integral sub-rectangular tab on one side which has a sub-rectangular opening. This frame, including the tab is flat on both faces, other than some slight bevelling around the edges on the upper face. This fragment consists of much of one of the sides as demonstrated by a break at the return to the outer edge at one end; the other part of the side has been broken before the return and bent downwards following old damage. The pin bar has also been broken and the pin, naturally, is missing. The frame is corroded overall to a mid-grey colour with dustings of light corrosion product.This type of buckle may relate to a sword belt. A similar but slightly larger example has been recorded from London and has been tentatively dated c. 1350-1400 (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 99; fig 63., ref. 457). Whitehead (1996, 76; refs. 470 and 471) suggests a date of c. AD 1350-1500 for such buckles. However, buckles of this type have also been recorded from 16th-17th century contexts in Amsterdam (see Portable Antiquities Scheme find: SF8435, from Bedingfield Parish, Suffolk).
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