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Description: | A late Post Medieval to early Modern copper alloy two piece buckle. The buckle is in two parts, the frame and the chape with the spindle present inside. The buckle frame is oval in plan with the centre of all four sides expanded in width. The top and bottom edge is thickened in the centre forming a 'D' shaped expansion. This expansion is drilled with a circular hole to take the separate spindle, now heavily corroded. The chape, now detached from the frame, is a flat 'D' shaped plate with two circular and hollow tabs at the straight end. The iron spidle passes through both tabs and would have connected to the top and bottom edges of the frame. The pin is missing and would have extended from the spindle between the two tabs on the chape. Iron corrosion on one outer edge of the frame suggests that it was also made of iron.The front of the frame has recessed panels in the top and bottom edges, containing a lighter coloured material. This is likely to have been a decorative paste and whilst it is now a dark beige colour, could easily have looked white or green when the buckle was new. Traces of gilding are present on the reverse of the buckle.The frame measures 20.8mm in legnth, 23.4mm in width, 3.5mm in thickness at the spindle holes (2.6mm at the outer edges) and weighs 2.88g. The chape measures 10.8mm in length, 12.3mm in width, 3.8mm in thickness at the spindle tabs (1.9mm at the chape plate) and weighs 1.26g. The two parts of the buckle together therefore weigh 4.14g.Whitehead (2003; pg. 102) illustrates a similar, more complete example, no. 659.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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