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Description: | Copper alloy buckle. Cast single looped buckle frame with sides of sub-triangular section, and with a thickened and everted outer edge with a groove serving as pin rest, and with an offset and narrowed strap bar. The strap bar is clasped by a cast slotted rectangular plate of thickness c.2mm whose inner ends are attached to each other by a rivet which appears to have been integrally cast with the plate and whose end is burred behind the inner end of its doubled thickness. An incised vertical line may represent marking out for the slot which would have permitted the pin [now lost] to operate. The thickened outer edge of the buckle frame is curved, as if to admit the passage of an exceptionally thick strap. The formal conventions follow medieval styles but in much weightier form than is usual - for example, a buckle plate would normally be a flimsy item of folded sheet metal. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1400.Length: 53.5mm, Height: 26.2mm, Thickness (frame): 5.6mm, Weight: 27.89gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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