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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SOM-2028B8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A medieval or post-medieval cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops which incurve towards the pin bar. They are bevelled externally on their upper surface thus giving them a triangular cross-section. The pin bar is trapezoidal in cross-section. The pin is formed of a strip of rectangular cross-section and is looped loosely around the pin bar. It tapers to a gradual point at the tip which has been bent upwards following old damage. One of the loops has been bent upwards in relation to the other, slightly twisted, following old damage. The buckle has corroded to a red/brown colour with patches of off-white corrosion product.
Class: double-looped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34.1 mm
Width: 23.3 mm
Thickness: 2.4 mm
Weight: 3.92 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 16622
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: Near Wincanton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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