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Description: | Post Medieval copper alloy double-looped oval buckle with an iron pin and separate strap-plate. The loops form one continuous oval outer frame and the outer sides of the loops are slightly widened. The outer edge is rounded and the inner edge and back flat and plain. The integral strap bar is plain. The iron pin is highly corroded but remains in situ. The strap plate is formed of a thin rectangular strip of copper alloy sheet bent in half around the central bar. It has a rectangular slot at the fold for the pin and both sides are borken with irregular breaks. It is 19mm long, 21.1mm including the strap plate, 15mm wide and 1.4mm thick, 5.8mm including pin and plate. Weight 1.73gmsWhitehead (2003:48) illustrates a similar buckle, no. 279, which he dates to c. AD 1650-1720, it is likely they are for shoes.
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