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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NMS-D28810
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval incomplete buckle with integral hollow or socketed plate, pin and almost all of the frame are missing. A pair of transverse moulded grooves decorating the bar is interrupted by the pin hole, and there is a waist between the bar and the socket. On the front of the plate the sacred monogram ihc in black-letter is picked out by engraved lines on a transversely engraved ground, to be viewed with the frame pointing downwards. Two iron rivets are driven through the top of the inscription. Surviving length 38mm. Width at attachment edge 22mm. Socket width 18.5mm, thickness 2mm, length/depth 17mm. This type of buckle, normally called "lyre-shaped" was popular in northwest Europe during the period between c.1375 and c.1450 (Fingerlin 1971, Abb. 286-7, 289, 291 and 336).
Class:
hollow plate
Inscription:
ihc
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1375
Date to: Circa AD 1450
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38 mm
Width: 22 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st December 2007 - Saturday 1st December 2007
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: West Acre
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fingerlin, I. | 1971 | Gürtel des Hohen und Späten Mittelalters | München | Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien Band XLVI | Abb. 286-7, 289, 291 and 336 |
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