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Description: | An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy single-loop buckle frame (c. 1350-c. 1400).The pin and possibly a folded plate are missing.The oval frame is convex at the front and flat at the rear, bevelled internally at the rear. It has an ornate outer edge and a narrowed off-set bar. The outer edge has a central pin rest flanked on either side by transverse ridges. The bar is rectangular in cross-section.This frame is green and corroded.Length: 19.1mm; width: 26.4mm; thickness: 4.9mm. Weight: 3.01g.A similar buckle from London has been date c. 1350-c. 1400 (Egan and Pritchard: 1991: 73, fig. 44, ref: 297) and has been classified as a Meols Type 9 (Griffiths, D. Philpott, R. and Egan, G. 2007:xxxxxxxxEgan, G. and Pritchard, F. 1991. Dress Accessories. Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 3. The Stationary office. Museum of London.Griffiths, D. Philpott, R. and Egan, G. 2007. Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast. Discoveries and observations in the 19th and 20th Centuries with a catalogue of collections. Oxford University School of Archaeology: Monograph 68. Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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