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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy double-loop oval buckle, missing one loop of the frame, but retaining the pin around the central pin bar. The frame has a flat base and a plano-convex profile in cross-section and narrowed central pin bar. The frame has a rounded outer edge, but a sharp bevelled inner edge. The shape of the extant loop is slightly assymetrical, and the other loop would have probably been a slightly different shape, as these buckles were not made in multiple moulds. The central pin bar is bevelled on both sides and triangular in section and appears to have been bent both towards the side of the missing loop and in the centre wher it has ben pulled by the thick copper alloy pin looped around it, after deposition. There is a very small knopped protusion at each end of the pin bar. The cast copper alloy pin is 4 mm wide and 2.5 mm thick and tapers to a point. There are patches of black lacquer on the surface of the frame which was used to coat the copper alloy to protect it from corrosion.See a similar buckle in record CORN-7393B8.Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar spectacle buckle on page 54, no.308, which is dated from c.1500-1650.Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 110, no.668, which is dated from c.1485-1600
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