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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy double looped trapezoidal buckle of Post Medieval dating (AD 1620 -AD 1680).The buckle frame is sub rectangular / trapezoidal in plan, and rectangular in profile. The buckle has trefoil shaped ends and a loped protrusion at either end of the narrowed strap bar. The pin is intact which is made from a rectangular piece of copper alloy that has been folded around the central bar. This is pointed at the outer edge. The pin moves freely on the central bar. The front face of the buckle has been decorated with an incised transverse line spanning the width of the buckle at the edge closest to the open loop. A horizontal incised line transverses at the centre of the buckle from the loop edge to the outer edge. This decoration is mirrored on both narrow outer edges of the buckle. The reverse of the buckle is plain and undecorated. The buckle has a mid-brown-green coloured patina, with some areas of active corrosion. Whitehead (2003, p84) has illustrated a similar buckle (no.524) with the same engraved decoration. He has dated this type of buckle to the Post Medieval period (c.AD 1620 to c.AD 1680) and suggests they may have been used a buckling spurs. There are also examples recorded on the PAS database, (CORN-B6ACD7) was discovered in Cornwall and (SOM-6ECFC5) from South Somerset. The buckle measures 35.09mm long, 23.78mmwide, is 2.09mm thick and weighs 5.8 grams.Whitehead, R. 2003. Buckles 1250-1800. Greenlight Publishing. Witham.
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