Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service
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Unique ID: SF-E8B4D1
Object type certainty: Certain
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Medieval copper alloy spur buckle, missing its frame. Surviving length 54.61mm, and 13.10mm wide. It weighs 3.74g.
One short end has two projecting triangular stubs from the frame, connected by a narrow bar, which forms one side of a D-shaped pin hole,set centrally. There is a further circular rivet hole 3mm from the pin hole.
The plate tapers towards the other short end, before terminating in a rectangular projection with an incomplete hooked end. There is a single rivet in situ in the centre of the rectangle, and there are the remains of a chequer pattern of gilding at this end of the object.Traces of gilding also occur around the two rivet holes at the opposite end.
Class: spur
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Quantity: 1
Length: 54.61 mm
Width: 13.1 mm
Weight: 3.74 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2004
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