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Description: | TREASURE CASE : 2016 T16.A complete silver buckle of post-medieval date. The object is a shoe buckle consisting of a sub-rectangular silver frame with rounded corners and swellings to the interior edges of either loop. The frame also swells at the centre from which an integral spindle extends. A separate copper alloy sub-ovate chape remains looped around the spindle, though one of the two loops by which it is secured is now broken. The remains of an iron rivet remain to the attachment end of the chape.Dimensions:Length: 29.6mm; Width: 17.4mm; Thickness: 3.1mm; Weight: 3.2g.Discussion: This form of buckle is illustrated in Whitehead (1996), p.103. No.661-663 though these examples have separate spindles rather than integral as with the present example, which is relatively unusual.Conclusion: On balance of probability, the buckle is more than 300 years old. Therefore in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.References:Whitehead, R. (1996) Buckles 1250 - 1800. Essex: Greenlight Publishing.
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