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Description: | A complete copper alloy single looped buckle frame, of Medieval dating (14th Century AD).The buckle frame is sub oval in plan, with two protruding corner knops . The strap bar is square in section and offset. The frame is decorated by two oval protruding corner knops, with three perpendicular grooves between them in the centre of the loop. These grooves presumably acted as the pin rest rest as well as being decorative. The back of the frame is plain and undecorated. The pin is missing, presumably lost in antiquity.It measures 21.67 mm in length, 17.99 mm wide and is 3.45 mm thick. It weighs 3.0 grams.The buckle frame is a mid green colour, with an even surface patina.This style of buckle frame is relatively common and several examples have been recorded on the PAS database from Warwickshire including (WAW-361207, WAW-BC0517 and WAW-4C2D16). Egan (2007, pp90) dates examples #544, #545 and #548 to the late 14th Century AD.Reference:Egan, G. 2007 Later Medievan non-ferrous metalwork and evidence for metal working: AD 1050-1100 to 1500-50 in Griffiths, Philpott and Egan, 2007.Griffiths, D., Philpott, R.A. and Egan, G. 2007. Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast. Discoveries and observations in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a catalogue of collections. Oxford University School of Archaeology: Monograph 68. Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
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