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Description: | Copper alloy buckle plate. Folded sub-rectangular strip of thickness 2.3mm with an oval-ended slot at its narrowed central part. A stout rivet of length 5mm and diameter 4.7mm appears to have been integrally cast; it projects from the back of the display face and is burred, presumably after having passed through a hole in the back plate, now torn with the plate bent out of place. A pair of vertical gilded lines appear immediately behind the position that a buckle would occupy. The object is altogether more substantial than the sheet metal buckle plates which it otherwise resembles. The use of an integral rivet would tend to hint at an early post-medieval date, though both condition and linear gilded decoration may point to an earlier period. A small fragment at the torn end broke off during recording. Suggested date: Possibly Post-Medieval, 1400-1650.Length (as found): 39.6mm, Height (as found): 21.9mm, Weight: 14.79gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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