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BUCKLE
Unique ID: WAW-263F01
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy annular buckle. In plan, the brooch frame is circular and oval in section. The frame is undecorated. The surface of the frame has only fragments of its original surface remaining, but despite this the frame is in good condition. Only a fragment of the iron pin remains. This is curled around the frame and has since corroded onto the frame. The buckle frame measures 26.32mm diameter and 3.58mm thick. Including the pin it is 29.68mm long. It weighs 4.97g. Similar buckles are illustrated in Egan G. and Pritchard F. (2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press), No. 31 and No. 38. No. 38 has a larger frame but also has an iron pin. Egan and Pritchard (2002:57) comment that these frames, without constrictions for the pin are considered to be buckles, and those with a constriction are brooches and date to the late 14th to 15th centuries.
Class: Cassels type 1.1A
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1375
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.68 mm
Thickness: 3.58 mm
Weight: 4.97 g
Diameter: 26.32 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st October 2006
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Temple Grafton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP1352
Four figure Latitude: 52.166117
Four figure longitude: -1.811353
1:25K map: SP1352
1:10K map: SP15SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 1991 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 3) (1991) | London | Stationery Office Books | No. 31 and No. 38 |
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