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Description: | An incomplete Medieval cast copper-alloy composite buckle with an integral forked spacer and separate copper-alloy sheet plates (c. 1350-c. 1450).The loop is a Meols Type 3/4.The oval frame is bevelled at the front and flat at the rear. It has a triangular lip at the centre of the outer edge.Between the frame and pronged spacers there is a narrowed bar for the complete copper-alloy wire pin. The separate plain sheets are very thin and the attachment end is biconcave, being formed of two small triangular removals. At the centre of the attachment end there is a copper alloy rivet through both plates. Each rivet head is flat. Both plates are incomplete as they are damaged and abraded around the edges.This buckle is green with small areas of corrosion and has buff deposits in places. There are flecks of a shiny dark green patina on the frame. File marks can be seen on the frame.Overall length: 43.2mm; length of plates: 21.4mm; width of frame: 22.1mm; thickness: 3.5mm; width at attachment end: 15.1mm; length of pin: 17.6mm. Weight: 5.56g.Similar buckles from London have been published and dated c. 1350-c. 1450 (Egan & Pritchard 1991: 80, fig. 49, refs: 325-330).The plates may have been adapted from a strap-end.For buckle plate (strap-end), see: Egan and Pritchard 1991: 143, fig. 93, ref: 660 which is dated c. 1350-c. 1400.Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. 1991. Dress Accessories: Medieval finds from excavations in London: 3. London: HMSO.
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