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Description: | A complete single looped cast copper-alloy buckle of Medieval date, dating c. 1250-1500. The buckle is broadly 'D' shaped in plan view and plano-convex in section with an especially thin pin-bar, and posesses an integral sheet-metal roller at the point where the open-looped sheet metal pin meets the outer point of the buckle bar. The arms of the buckle flare out and thicken as they move symmetrically outwards from the pin-bar, which terminate in a pair of 'wing like' teardrop shaped lobes sitting either side of the copper-alloy roller and perpendicular to the pin's terminal end. These lobes have been decorated with cross-hatched linear motifs across their upper surfaces. Whitehead does not illustrate a buckle of this exact form in his publication, but he notes that examples with thinner cross-bars and lobed moulded decoration probably originated from personal dress and does publish a broadly similar example which posesses a similar plan view to the above example in addition to an integral sheet-metal roller (Whitehead 2003, no. 58). The buckle is 25mm wide at its widest point, 22mm wide at the mid-point of its arms, the buckle bar is 14mm long and the arms of the buckle are 1.8mm thick. It weighs 3.48 grammes.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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