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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy trapezoidal knee buckle with a drilled frame for a separate spindle. The spindle, chape and pin are missing. The frame is symmetrical in plan and is moulded at the front and flat and plain at the rear and has concave sides. When viewed from the side, it has a downward curving profile. Iron corrosion product survives around each spindle hole, suggesting that the spindle was made of iron. Above each spindle hole, there are three moulded circles, one at the centre and one on either side with outward-curving wings which extend into a splayed and flatter moulding on either side, so that the composite effect is of a scrolled motif. At the centre of each outside edge of the frame there is a transverse grooved pin rest with a lipped moulding at each side. The original patina survives well as it appears from a few black patches that is was under a layer of of black lacquer which would have been painted on to the surface in order to protect the copper alloy beneath.Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar buckle on page 99, no.624, which is dated from c.1660-1720.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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