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BUCKLE
Unique ID: BH-C6C322
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A gilt copper-alloy buckle plate, dating from the Medieval period.
The plate has been cast as one piece and then folded around the axis bar of the now-missing frame. The upper side of the plate comprises two roughly oval areas, with a pair of pointed projections at the central point, where the two meet. At the frame end, there is a pair of folded tabs with an angled projection on either side. Traces of an incised pattern are visible on the heavily corroded surface of the upper plate. This surface is also interrupted by the flattened-globular heads of three in situ copper-alloy rivets, two of which are situated at the frame end, with the other just to the right of centre. These rivets would have held the strap in place and also join the decorative upper plate to the much smaller, plain back plate, whose straight sides converge towards its damaged end.
Length: 23mm; width: 10.9mm; thickness: 4.6mm; weight: 1.75g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 23 mm
Width: 10.9 mm
Thickness: 4.6 mm
Weight: 1.75 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 8th October 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Ver 13/140 -16
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Essex (County)
District: Uttlesford (District)
To be known as: Chrishall
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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