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Description: | A copper-alloy buckle frame of Medieval date. It is as Meols type C with rectangular frame that has slightly convex sides, an expanded outer edge, and an offset and narrowed rectangular bar. The outer edge is pointed oval shaped in cross section and on one face has a pin rest formed from thre central grooves with single grooves at top and bottom. The opposite face has single grooves at top and bottom with single diagonal grooves at centre. Each side of the frame has vertical ribs at outer edge and bar end. Trace sof gilding are visible in the grooves and pin rest on the outer edge, and suggest the entire frame may originally have been gilded. It measures 15.16mm in width, 17.91mm in length, 3.49mm in thickness, and 2.33g in weight. This buckle frame is of Medieval date, c.14th century AD (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: nos. 437-438). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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