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Description: | Part of a copper alloy buckle dating from the Medieval period, AD 1350 - 1500. The remaining portion consists of two rectangular fragments of copper alloy sheet (the front and back plates) with a fragment of a forked spacer sandwiched between them. There are two copper alloy rivets holding the three elements together, one on the outer edge ofeach short side. Both rivets remain in place. There is also a third small, circular perforation in the centre, now filled with corrosion. One sheet is decorated with a narrow incised double line border running along one of the short edges of the rectangle. The fragment has a patchy, light green patina. It is 14.9mm long, 23.8mm wide and 4.1mm thick. It weighs 3.17gm.Buckles of this type are illustrated in Griffiths, Philpott and Egan, 2007, Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast, page 95, numbers 599 and 604.
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