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Description: | Medieval copper alloy composite buckle with the frame and part of the forked spacer surviving. The front and back plates are missing. The frame is a cast oval with a projecting triangular lip in the cnetre of the outer side, bevelled outer edge and integral forked spacer. It is roughly triangular in section. The pin is missing. The short forked spacer joins the frame at the strap bar. There is a central gap between the forks with just a narrow strap bar. This central gap widens away from the pin as the forks narrow and are also stepped in in width just before ending in old breaks. The forks appear to have continued as narrowed bars beyond this step. The ends of the forks closer to the frame are of the same thickness as the rest of the frame and then thin before the step in in width. the frame is now 25.5mm long in total, the loop is 21.6mm wide and the spacer is 14.4mm wide, it is 2.6mm thick and weighs 3.05g.Egan and Pritchard (1991), p.78-9, fig.48 illustrate several similar examples, which they date to the second half of 14 century AD to early 15th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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