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Description: | A Medieval copper-alloy annular buckle. The annular frame has a circular cross-section of 4.8mm diameter that forms an external frame diameter of 40.3mm and internal frame diameter of 30.9mm. The pin survives and has a length of 43.5mm. The pin shaft has a sub-rectangular cross-section with rounded upper and lower surfaces and straight sides. The tip is rounded and the underside shows slight wear for a length of 5.3mm where the pin would have rested on the upper surface of the frame. The shaft tapers slightly to the tip which has a width of 3.5mm, and height of 3.2mm. 24.9mm in from the pin tip the shaft expands upwards from the upper surface to form a lateral rectangular ridge with rounded upper surface. This ridge occupies 7.4mm of the shaft length, maintains the shaft width of 3.6mm and increases the height, including the pin shaft, to 5.4mm. The end of this ridge represents the end of the pin shaft and start of the attachment loop although both parts are integral to each other. On the underside of the pin shaft, below the end of the lateral rectangular ridge, is a rectangular downwards projection with flat surface. This has a width of 2.9mm and height, including pin shaft, of 6.5mm. The attachment loop has a width of 2.8mm, an approximate external diameter of 12.6mm and internal diameter of 6.2mm. The end of the loop tapers to a blunt transverse terminal of 1.6mm width and height of 1.5mm. The attachment loop curves over the frame and under stopping 2.8mm short of the lower corner of the rectangular downwards projection. The combined weight of the frame and pin is 15.87g. Small patches of surface damage and/or corrosion are present on both the frame and pin.Egan dates these buckle to a date range between c. AD 1270-1450 and this type of pin to c. AD 1270-1400. See Egan, G. Dress Accessories 1150-1450, 2002, p.51, 58-60, 115-116, fig.32, 36, 38 & 75.
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