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Unique ID: SUSS-3EAEA3
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete cast copper alloy Post Medieval sub-rectangular shoe or knee buckle, c. 1660-c. 1720 AD. The remains of the buckle consist of a drilled frame, which would have held a separate spindle. The frame is decorated on the outer face with moulded decoration including moulded transverse lines and a knop at either end of the spindle bar; a sub-triangular knop projects on the interior side of the outer frame edges. The entire buckle is curved slightly convex to fit more comfortably against the body. The underside is undecorated. Iron corrosion is visible at either spindle hole, suggesting that the spindle itself was made of iron. The frame measures 29.43 mm long, 22.95 mm maximum width at outer projecting edges, 19.06 mm wide at spindle area, 3.67 mm thick and weighs 6.19 grams. Cf. Whitehead 2003, p100.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1660
Date to: Circa AD 1720
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.43 mm
Width: 22.95 mm
Thickness: 3.67 mm
Weight: 6.19 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 3rd April 2011
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | p100 |