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Description: | An incomplete medieval copper-alloy composite buckle frame with damaged forked spacer, and also missing its sheet plates. The oval frame has a central, pointed lip; it lacks a pin rest. The frame is bevelled externally on the upper surface; the lower surface is largely flat, with some slight internal and external bevelling. The frame has been narrowed at the spacer for the pin. This latter is a simple piece of wire of circular cross-section, bent into form with a loop and, now blunt, tip. The pin has been bent to one side following old damage.The spacer has an expanding aperture next to the frame (initial width: 3.0mm) for the pin. The two prongs travel outwards from the sides of the frame. The gap between the prongs, as noted, expands initially, but this becomes more pronounced after a step, after which point one of the prongs has been broken away; the other is relatively thinand from this point tapers to a point (and seems complete). The spacer is shallowly recessed on both upper and lower surfaces to accommodate the missing plates. The area above the plates, around the pin is raised; the frame by contrast to this latter is slightly lowered. The buckle frame and spacer have a dark-grey colour. The frame would appear to feature file marks.Similar examples of this buckle type can be found in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 78-82) where they are dated to the mid 14th/early 15th century.Buckle frame dimensions - length: 19.2mm, width: 22.6mm, thickness: 3.1mm; Spacer dimensions - width: up to 18.1mm, recessed thickness: 2.7mm. Overall length: 36.3mm. Weight: 4.27g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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