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Description: | A cast copper-alloy buckle of Medieval date. It is as Meols Type 2 with D-shaped frame that has offset and narrowed bar, and expanded outer edge with central transverse pin groove. Hinging around the bar is a separately cast copper-alloy plate that is D-shaped in form with rectangular frame recesses and pin slot, and smaller rectangular lower plate. It is decorated on its front face with a border formed from a double band of punched opposing triangles, with similar crescent shaped bands in the upper corners of the plate, and spiral shaped motifs at the centre of the plate. The plate has three circular rivet holes containing separately cast copper-alloy rivets with large globular heads. A separately cast copper-alloy pin hinges around the bar and is triangular in form, tapering to a sharp point. The entire object measures 32.77mm in width, 35.21mm in length, 4.44mm in thickness and 11.02g in weight. This buckle is of Medieval date, c.14th-15th centuries AD. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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