Record ID: PUBLIC-D5D052
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small copper alloy single loop D-shaped buckle frame with a sheet copper-alloy plate and copper-alloy wire pin still attached. The buckle has a pointed outer edge with a grooved pin rest. There also appears to be a decorative groove at either end of the bar, dividing it from the frame, although this may not be deliberate as the buckle is not well made. The frame is 21mm in length,13mm wide by 2mm thick. The plate shows signs of damage, with an apparently fragmentary edge. It was made by folding a strip of copper alloy sheet around the bar and cutting a pin slot. The plate is now …
Created on: Sunday 29th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUCKDEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-FDFE86
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy Late Roman buckle, c. 4th-c. 5th century AD. Hawkes and Dunning Type IIIB. The buckle consists of a D-shaped buckle loop with a trapezoidal integrally-cast plate on the outer face, a small plate on the reverse, two rivets and a pin, all of which are made of copper alloy. The D-shaped buckle loop has bevelled outer and inner edges and has incised decoration of two stylised dolphin heads from the side profile, with an eye, jaws and v-shaped delineation between head and body for each; a further line runs from top to the bottom of the jaws. The reverse surfac…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amberly', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-D6FB25
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle plate of Hawkes and Dunning Type IIA of late Roman to early Early medieval date. The single plate is sub-rectangular and of openwork design. The half of the plate closest to the frame has straight top and bottom sides and is perforated by three equal-sized holes, the central one of which would have served as a point of attachment for the now-missing pin. In addition to the holes, there is a vertical line of three ring-and-dot punchmarks on this half of the plate. The other half of the plate is less regular, with two trapezoidal apertures creating a '…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Billington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-BEAEF3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval copper alloy buckle with rectangular frame and integral plate. The frame is much wider than the plate, giving a T-shaped effect. It has a grooved pin rest with a slight moulding to either side on the outside edge. The copper-alloy pin is held within a slot in the plate, pivoting on a separate copper-alloy bar half way along the plate. The housing for the bar is marked on the front by a swelling on both the pin and the frame. The pin thickens where it is within the slot, so that it is the same thickness as the plate. The rear edge of the frame is bevelled as well as the outs…
Created on: Monday 16th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 10th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-AEED18
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle of Hawkes and Dunning Type IA of late Roman to early Early medieval date. Oval frame with narrowed bar and D-sectioned flat-backed outside edge with moulded pin notch between a pair of confronting dolphin heads with drilled eyes; cast pin with square boss near loop and lozengiform terminal drooped over notch; oval folded sheet plate with two convex headed rivets and polygonal sheet roves (one missing), and sides and inside edge of front part folded down over equal-sized rear part. Frame 18.5 x 33mm. Plate 22 x 30.5mm. Dates to the 4th century or later.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-AE8085
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Late Roman to early Early medieval cast copper alloy military belt buckle fragment of Hawkes and Dunning Type IB. The object consists of part of the buckle frame, in the form of two dolphin meeting mouth to mouth, with two horses' heads emerging from the backs of the dolphins. The buckle was produced in an open cast, and C-shaped scale details were then punched onto the bodies of the fish and a row of Cs representing a dorsal fin onto the base of the horse heads. The same punch may have used to mark the horses' eyes. The marks of rough filing are visible on the reverse. This fragment …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-ADA773
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete buckle with composite integral plate, almost all of the forked spacers and both outer sheets of plate missing. The frame is circular and decorated on the front face with a pair of encircling engraved lines flanking short radial lines. A large knop in the centre of the outside edge in the form of an animal head is composite, with the front part apparently attached by solder. The pin, set in a constriction, is D-sectioned, with a transverse rib near the loop. Frame dimensions are 33 x 25.5mm. The stubs of the forks of the spacer are set very close together indicating a plate …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2012
Last updated: Friday 5th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-9A8B75
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval cast copper-alloy D-shaped buckle frame, dating from 1250-1400 AD. The frame is of an elongated D shape and has a large, circular knop on the outside edge. This knop is separated from the frame by a raised collar. There is a small external ridge just before the bar on each side. The bar itself is slightly narrowed and offset; the pin is missing. The loop has a patchy, dark grey patina. The object appears to have been squashed slightly. It is 21.81mm long, 17.24mm wide and 3.89mm thick. It weighs 2.2g See Whitehead (1996; no. 85) for a similar example dated to c. 1250…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-46A887
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A small silver buckle. The frame is oval and convex at the front. The back is hollowed. The frame is decorated with a relief repeating pattern of framed ovals with dashes between. Attached to the integral centre bar is a tapering chqape with a stud at the end. On the underside of the chape are stamped two sets of the initials RT. The expanded head of the stud is also decorated with what appears to be a facing bust in a rope pattern frame (the decoration is in relief). In the notch of the chape attached to the centre bar is a lump of iron corrosion, probably from an iron pin. Date: Po…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Iwerne Minster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-31DCD6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a late Roman to early Early Medieval zoomorphic buckle frame of Hawkes and Duinning Type IIA. One side of the frame survives along with part of the head of one dolphin with a ring and pit for its eye. Behind the head are five short grooves and there is also a pair of short grooves on the point of the tail.
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-A1DB45
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval (1500-1600) silver penannular possible buckle or brooch frame. It is transversely corrugated on the upper surface with fourteen small external lobes. The lower surface is flat. The frame narrows to form a constriction for the pin, now missing. The object has been bent in profile. Measures 12.4x11.6x1.7 mm and weighs 0.84 grams. A similar artefact has been reported as Treasure, Treasure Annual Report 2008, 167; no. 390 (2008 T586).
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2012
Last updated: Monday 28th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Duncton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-1BC157
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame of medieval date (13th-14th century). It has a broadened outside edge, and a narrowed and recessed offset bar opposite (Meols type 11). The outer edge appears generally flat, with a central constriction. In the constriction is a sheet copper-alloy roller in situ. The sides narrow gradually towards the bar. A pin of basic thick sheet construction survives, one end curled around the bar. The other end is pointed at its tip. It measures 15 mm in length and 20 mm in width
Created on: Thursday 15th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-0ADBC5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of the frame of a large cast copper alloy rectilinear buckle of probable medieval date. The bar is missing, as is one top or bottom edge, and part of the outside edge. The frame has a projecting pin rest on which there is a series of transverse ridges, two closely set flanking a central groove, and one to either end of the projecting area. To either side of the pin rest the frame tapers, and is decorated with a ring-and-dot stamp. There is another similar stamp at the surviving corner. This corner also has a tiny projection to either side of the external angle. The date …
Created on: Wednesday 14th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-CD9127
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper single looped buckle with integral triangular plate. The loop is D shaped with bevelled outer edges.The edges of the plate are also bevelled. At the front of the plate there is a small circular hole, through which the pin is attached, flanked by slight knop at either with a copper alloy rivet through. Beyond this the plate tapers to form a triangular shape and terminates in a short oval transverse bar. There is another circular copper alloy rivet through the mid point of this bar. The pin is hooked at the attachment end and is D sectioned. The back of the buckle and plat…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-50B745
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt buckle with a triangular plate, recently broken in two pieces. The oval loop, of D shaped section, is cast in one with the plate. It has a false shield-on-tongue composed of two stepped, crescentic panels, each decorated with a band of interlace now obscured by corrosion. The base of the tongue is an elongated oval, the tip is now missing. At the junction of the loop and plate, on each side of the narrow flange bordering the latter, is a garnet-inlaid collared boss with a beaded rim. One of the garnets is a cabochon, the other is flat-cut and was presumably a replacement i…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Last updated: Monday 10th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-D65704
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper-alloy double-looped buckle dating to c. 1550-1650. It consists of a complete pointed-oval shaped frame; the pin is missing. The outer edges of the frame are pointed and have moulded decoration, probably of rosettes; further moulded decoration is visible but unclear on the rest of the front of the frame. Both outer edge curves in slightly at the centre of its internal surface. The pin bar is narrowed with further moulded decoration at either end and some possible iron corrosion in the centre of the bar suggests that the pin was composed of iron. The frame meas…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-93D3D0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy buckle frame dating to the early-medieval or medieval period. The bar is narrowed but not offset, with a circular, faceted cross-section. The rest of the frame has a slightly rounded upper surface with a flat reverse. It is D-shaped, with a notched protrusion at the mid-point of the outside edge, where a pin could rest, and two notched protrusions on the exterior edge, on on the top and one on the bottom, close to the junction of the loop with the bar. The metal is worn and corroded, so details of decoration are obscured, but all around the upper surface of the buckl…
Created on: Monday 13th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-928128
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval cast copper alloy buckle. Annular buckle frame with a castellated pattern. The central bar is intact, the pin is now missing. Buckles of this type have been dated from c.1400 -1500 AD. See no 269, p 46 in Buckles 1250 -1800 by Ross Whitehead for a similar example. Full reference below.
Created on: Monday 13th February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-3ED3F0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A corroded copper alloy probable buckle plate of probable Early Medieval date, about 650 - 850 AD. The plate is rectangular with worn and damaged edges. In the centre is a silver inlay or piece of silver foil decorated with a triquetra. Other objects with a silver foil include LIN-C0D1C1, and a parallel for the triquetra design is LVPL-918135. Another similar object is HAMP-994608. The shape of the plate is reminiscent of Medieval buckle plates, leading to the uncertainty over date and function. This object was referred to the National Finds Advisers and Treasure Team as potenti…
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2012
Last updated: Sunday 25th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sessay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-E8A851
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Strip of copper alloy bent so as to stand at a 45 degree angle, one end turns slightly, this is probably part of the hoop of a buckle, its outer edge bearing transverse lines executed in what appears to be rocked tracer work..
Created on: Sunday 5th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Kesteven', grid reference and parish protected.