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Description: | An almost complete Medieval cast copper-alloy single loop buckle.This frame is trapezoidal in plan and broadly rectangular in cross-section. The outer edge has feint transverse grooves on the upper face and the underside is stepped. The bar is sub-rectangular in cross-section. It has a copper-alloy pin which is incomplete as part of the loop is missing.The buckle is matt drab green and corroded in places with traces of a greenish buff patina.Frame: length: 19.5mm; width: 23.1mm; thickness at outer edge: 6.0mm.Pin: length: 18.6mm; width at loop: 3.1mm; thickness of shaft: 1.2mm.Overall weight: 6.41g.A similar shaped buckle has been published and dated c. 1350-1400 (Whitehead 2003: 27, ref: 136).Whitehead, R. 2003. Buckles 1250-1800. Greenlight Publishing, Witham.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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