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BUCKLE
Unique ID: LIN-03E244
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An elaborate copper-alloy buckle and plate dating to the medieval period. The buckle frame is D-shaped in plan and there is a small notch for the pin on the lip. The pin bar is narrowed and recessed. The plate is rectangular in plan and decorated with a large moulded lion or mythical creature such as a dragon walking to the left. The beasts tail curls back over its back. The animal is set within a linear-ridged perimeterm with a double band of dots running around its interior. There are two globular-headed copper-alloy rivets through the plate. The object has been gilded.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35 mm
Width: 22 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Stallingborough (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA1811
Four figure Latitude: 53.582322
Four figure longitude: -0.21907
1:25K map: TA1811
1:10K map: TA11SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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