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Description: | A copper-alloy buckle of Medieval date. It is as Meols type 2 with D-shaped frame that has an offset and narrowed rectangular bar. Hinging around the bar is a separately cast buckle plate and pin. The pin is triangular in form, D-shaped in section, tapering to a pointed tip and with a slight transverse rib on its front face. The buckle plate is rectangular in form with rectangular frame recesses and pin slot, and lower plate that is rectangular in form but narrower and shorter than the upper plate. It is decorated on its front face with a single grooved border. At the centre of the plate is a circular rivet hole holding in place a separately cast copper-alloy rivet with dome-shaped head. Two further similar rivets are visible at the attachment end. Traces of gilding are present on all exterior surfaces of the object. It measures 16.05mm in width, 36.19mm in length, 4.71mm in thickness, and 4.63g in weight.This is a copper-alloy buckle of Medieval date. It finds parallels in examples from London (e.g. Egan and Pritchard, 1991: no. 304) and is of probable c.13th-14th century AD date. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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