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BUCKLE
Unique ID: CORN-E1371D
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Tinned cast copper alloy shuttle-shaped shoe buckle with a drilled frame for a separate spindle. The frame consists of two interlacing ribbons, creating an openwork pattern of an outer annular border and an inner narrower rectangular border, that meet at each corner of the frame where there is moulded foliage. There are moulded rosettes above each spindle hole and at the apex of the two outer edges, and between these, there are moulded squares within circles running along the outer frame and transverse lines across the inner frame, making it appear like ropework. The spindle and tongue are missing, but there are some areas of iron corrosion product around the spindle holes which suggests that it was made of steel. There are patches of tin on the upper surface of the frame, but the buckle is generally quite corroded.
Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on page 110, no.702, which is dated from the 1720s to the 1790s.
Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 175, No.1162, which is dated from c.1720-1790.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1720
Date to: Circa AD 1799
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 61 mm
Width: 53 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 16.8 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 4th October 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Tin or tin alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Chacewater (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW7244
Four figure Latitude: 50.25188881
Four figure longitude: -5.19967509
1:25K map: SW7244
1:10K map: SW74SW
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 1995 | History Beneath our Feet (1995) | Ipswich | Anglia Publishing | 175, | No.1162 | |
| Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | 110, | no.702 |
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