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Description: | A medieval copper-alloy buckle with an oval loop and integral plate, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin. The frame is bevelled on its front and flat on its reverse. The outer edge is slightly expanded. The plate is square where it connects to the frame. It then narrows in a step before tapering to a pointed, yet rounded, end. Towards the end there is an integral rivet of circular cross-section, now bent to one side. At the frame end there is a perforation filled with iron corrosion product from the missing pin. The front of the tapering end of the plate is decorated with three pairs of small transverse ridges. Traces of gilt survive in this area. Such buckles were plausibly used with spurs of 13th- or 14th-century date: see Egan and Pritchard (1991, 106; fig. 68).The frame has been twisted upwards as a result of old damage. The buckle measures 29.6mm by 12.0mm (at the frame). It is up to 3.1mm thick, up to 5.3mm at the rivet. It weighs 1.97g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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