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Description: | Incomplete ornate cast copper alloy double-looped buckle of Post-medieval date (c.1620-c.1690), with its pin missing. The buckle is sub-rectangular in plan, with double rectangular loops of equal size. The rectangular frame is flat and consists of heart-shaped openwork, with a narrow pin bar. One end of the pin bar is noticeably thinner. Each of the outer corners of the frame consists of a fleur-de-lys moulding, forming part of the openwork. There is heart-shaped openwork pointing outwards at the ordinal points of the frame (i.e. either side of the pin bar and at the midpoints of either end of the frame), with small, stylised fleur-de-lys mouldings on the outer edges at these points. Either side of the heart-shaped openwork areas are sub-circular openings with scrolled moulding surrounding the openwork. Parts of the edges of the openwork mouldings appear to be in relief on the front surface of the frame. The brooch has an even dark green patina and traces that the buckle was once tinned.References:Whitehead (1996) illustrates similar trapezoidal buckles with assymetrical openwork on page 80, nos.497-499, which are dated from c.1620-1690, and another trilobed buckle with heart-shaped openwork on page 85, no.537, which is dated from c.1620-1680. See also DEV-A96F91 for a similar example. Two very similar parallels can be seen on the database: one discovered at Maisemore, Gloucestershire (HESH-2AD96C) and the other at Stockland, East Devon (DEV-AF747E).
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