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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy composite buckle frame with forked spacer. The buckle dates to the Medieval period, circa AD 1350-1450. The pin and the plates are missing and one of the spacer prongs terminates in an old break. The sub-oval frame has a pointed projecting pin rest at the centre of the outer edge. The face of the buckle next to the pointed projection is flattened with a slight groove in order to accommodate the end of the now missing pin. The pointed projection is chamfered. The rest of the buckle face is obliquely angled from the interior edge of the loop to the outer edge of the frame. The angled face of the buckle with the flat reverse and straight interior edge creates a triangular section to the frame. The forked spacer joins the frame at the strap bar. There is a central gap between the forks to form a bar around which the pin would have been bent. The spacer has a raised rectangular ridge close to the buckle loop. Away from the buckle loop, the front and back surfaces of the spacer are recessed in order to accommodate the missing plates. Both prongs have rectangular cross sections near to the buckle loop. Midway along the prongs the section narrrows abruptly and then the prongs gently taper to a pointed terminal. The buckle and spacer have an uneven green patina. Similar examples of this buckle type can be found in Egan and Pritchard:1997, page 81, fig 49.Length: 21.88mm. Width: 44.15mm. Thickness: 2.82mm. Weight: 4.13g.
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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