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Description: | A complete copper-alloy oval buckle frame with integral hooked plate of Medieval date, c.13th to c.15th century AD. The frame has a width of 15.0mm and length of 14.2mm to the start of the pin hole. The frame has an oval cross-section, which becomes 'D' shaped as the frame gets closer to the pin hole. 2.6mm into the plate from the inner edge of the buckle frame is a circular pin hole of 3.5mm diameter. A second circular perforation is present 1.7mm behind the pin hole that is positioned just off centre from the lateral mid-line. This second hole has a diameter of 1.8mm. The copper-alloy pin survives in a complete condition wrapped around the pin bar through the pin hole. The pin has a rectangular cross-section and rounded tip. At the tip the pin shaft has a thickness of 1.3mm and width of 1.7mm. The shaft increases in width away from the tip to 2.9mm and 1.5mm thickness just prior to curving over to butt up against the underside of the shaft to form a loop that secures the pin to the frame. The pin has a length of 17.9mm from tip to rear end of the loop. The pin is made from a different alloy than the rest of the buckle.Behind the frame the plate starts with a slight transverse ridge across the upper surface that extends to each edge and projects out from each side to form a slight knop. These partial knops are positioned over the pin bar and half of the pin hole giving the plate a width of 11.7mm. Behind the knops the plate has a width of 10.2mm tapering to 8.5mm before expanding to form a rectangular zone that gives the plate a width of 11.0mm and accounts for 5.8mm of the total length. A circular hole of 2.2mm diameter is positioned on the mid-lateral line within this rectangular zone towards the distal end of the plate rather than set centrally. Following the rectangular zone the plate has a width of 5.3mm and thickness of 1.3mm that tapers into the forward curving integral hook. The width is 3.3mm just before the plate starts to curve forwards and the hook continues to taper to a width of 2.1mm where the hook butts against the upper surface of the plate. The hook continues to taper to a relatively pointed tip for a further 2.6mm within the loop formed by the hook. It is uncertain whether the hook has been pushed down to make contact with the upper surface of the plate, thus forming a loop, as subsequent damage rather than this being part of the original design of the buckle. The two circular holes positioned behind the pin hole would have been used as rivet holes, the rivets now missing. The upper surface of the buckle plate has been gilded and the remains of this gilt shows the shallow small zigzag incised lines which for the only decoration. The zigzag motif can be seen as a single lateral line between the two rivet holes and closely set covering the entire surface of the rectangular zone.This buckle weighs 5.87g, has a length of 47.4mm, maximum width of 15.1mm. The buckle has a fairly straight profile. Similar buckles from London have been found in deposits dated to c. AD 1230-1260.See Egan, G. & Pritchard, F. Dress Accessories 1150-1450. 1991 & 2002. p.78-79, fig.48, nos. 320-321 as well as the example shown from the Ashmolean Museum, accession no.410.1981. Also see PAS record CAM-7D7370 and Whitehead, R. Buckles 1250-1800 Greenlight Publishing 2003, p.32-33, no.178.
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