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Description: | A post medieval copper alloy buckle dating to the period c AD 1660-1720. The buckle frame is complete and has its spindle and part of the chape. It is a trapezoidal shoe or knee buckle with a drilled frame for a separate spindle. The frame is engraved with pairs of transverse lines on the edges of the frame next to the spindle fitting. The loops of the frame are engraved with a geometric, curvilinear, floral or foliate decoration. The chape is missing the end section. The section next to the spindle is decorated with an engraved triangular shaped band of pellets with lines radiating from the point of the triangle to the wider side. Cf Whitehead, R, 2003, Buckles 1250-1800, Greenlight Publishing Witham, p 99. No 626.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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