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Description: | A copper alloy incomplete Medieval buckle with plate, dating from about AD 1250 - AD 1450. The outer edge of the buckle frame is missing, meaning it can't be classified into a Meols type. The sides are bevelled and the bar is recessed and offset.The rectangular sheet plate survives bent round the bar with a slot for the pin. The front plate is decorated with a border of two rows of punched crescents, leaving a plain raised line between them. The edges are damaged.The front and back plates are held together by four copper alloy rivets. They have domed heads which appear to be a separate element added to a plain pin-like rivet; the rivet shank projects through the possibly hollow bi-convex head. The two rivets nearest the frame project right through the back plate and the ends are bent over to hold them in place. The other two rivets are incomplete, as is the backplate at those two rivet holes. Between the plates survives part of the brown leather strap.The pin is heptagonal in section. The tip is missing but the break is patinated. The other end is bent into a loop round the bar. All the faces except the wider flat underside are marked with fine incuse transverse lines, either decorative punch marks or indentations from being gripped with tongs, perhaps.The metal work has a smooth glossy dark green patina. The rivets has a more grey patina. The breaks in the frame are also patinated. The buckle is 38.6mm long, 23.3mm wide and 6.8mm thick. 4.59g. Meols number 583 on page 95 has some similarities, as does SUR-0404AE.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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