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Description: | A trapezoidal cast copper-alloy buckle frame of Medieval date. The upper and lower sides are rectangular in section with rounded edges. The outer side has a semi-circular in cross section inner edge and a U-shaped groove running along the length of the outer (external) edge, the same thickness as the frame. The groove appears undecorated. The front of the outer side has three deeply incised transverse lines in the centre creating a pin rest. Otherwise the frame is plain. The strap bar is narrowed with a slight step in in thickness at each end leaving a projecting triangle. The metal is a deep grey-green in colour with little corrosion but traces of a black coating or sooting. The buckle measures 35.5mm long by 19.4mm wide, 4.2mm thick and it weighs 5.43 grams.This is an unusual buckle not paralleled in the usual sources but several similar have been recorded on this database. These parallels have a range of decoration in the groove down the outer edge and on the front of the frame: WAW-356DD0, HAMP-EC41C0, SUR-3431D7, NARC-D8A4A0, SUSS-61FE15 and HAMP-AA1377. These buckles can be dated to the latter centuries of the Medieval period, c.AD 1250-1450.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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