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BUCKLE

Unique ID: CAM-86A5C7

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Fragment of copper-alloy buckle from a sword belt. The lower edge survives, together with part of the central bar, which ends in an integral suspension loop turned at right angles; this suspension loop would originally have held a hook fixed onto a scabbard. The buckle would originally have had two rectangular loops, and as the lower corner of one survives, an original length of c. 32 mm can be reconstructed. The cross-section of the surviving loops, and the suspension loop, is rectangular; the cross-section of the bar is roughly circular. The fragment weighs 3.99g. Sword belts with buckles such as these were worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Class: Sword Belt
Evidence of reuse: None

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1500
Date to: AD 1700

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 24.6 mm
Width: 28.52 mm
Thickness: 3.74 mm
Weight: 3.99 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 5th March 2009

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
Parish or ward: Weston Colville (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: TL6251
Four figure Latitude: 52.133556
Four figure longitude: 0.365507
1:25K map: TL6251
1:10K map: TL65SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

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Recording Institution: CAM
Created: 14 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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