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BUCKLE

Unique ID: WMID4683

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

The buckle frame is a 'D' shape with an integral sub-rectangular plate. The loop of the frame is hugely expanded and obliquely angled. This is decorated with obliquely angled ridges. The integral plate has a small hole through which a pin is curled around. The pin is bent at the mid point. The plate tapers slightly towards its terminal, which has a circular rivet hole. The face of the plate is decorated with a central linear ridge and oblique grooves. The reverse is undecorated. There are traces of gilding on the upper face of the plate.

A parallel can be found from Shenley Church End, Buckinghamshire, in Riddler (in Mynard 1994; fig. 92, no. 1). A further example described only as being a Cambridgeshire find can be seen in Hammond (2014, 41; fig. 1.2-h). See also WAW-B2391B, NMS-5ACFA3, LVPL-0E5AD1, SUR-738F74, NMS-F44A35 on this database, possibly also BH-302417 and NMS-1C6BE0, NMS-883545, BUC-E25937 and BUC-303D07 are similar, but not identical.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1150
Date to: Circa AD 1350

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 36.78 mm
Width: 16.58 mm
Thickness: 11.07 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st February 2002

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast

Surface Treatment: Gilded

Spatial metadata

Region: West Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Worcestershire (County)
District: Wyre Forest (District)
Parish or ward: Chaddesley Corbett (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SO8974
Four figure Latitude: 52.363941
Four figure longitude: -2.162965
1:25K map: SO8974
1:10K map: SO87SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Mynard, D.C.	1994	Excavations on Medieval Sites in Milton Keynes	Aylesbury	Bucks Archaeological Society		92.1

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Created: 21 years ago
Updated: 5 years ago

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