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Description: | An incomplete and corroded Medieval sheet copper-alloy buckle plate (c. 1300-c. 1450).This plate is sub-rectangular in plan and has a rectangular pin slot for the missing pin. It is folded widthways around a corroded iron bar. Close to the pin slot are two rivet holes parallel to the bar. One has a dome-headed copper-alloy rivet in situ and the other one is empty.This plate is in poor condition and the breaks appear to be old. It is drab brown and green. Gilding is visible at the front around the rivet holes.Length: 20.59mm; width: 18.18mm; thickness: 4.95mm. Weight: 1.66g.Similar buckle plates have been recorded from London (Egan and Pritchard 1991: 102-105, fig. 66, refs: 476-480). These are dated c. 1400-c. 1450.Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. 1991. Dress Accessories: Medieval finds from excavations in London: 3. London: HMSO.
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