Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WMID-4EC4A6
Object type certainty: Certain
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A cast copper-alloy buckle frame from a post-medieval shoe buckle. The frame is ornately decorated with moulded decoration on each edge of the frame. At each end this decoration forms a recess for the pin, whilst on the sides the decoration takes the form of a rib flanked by two semi-circular ridges. The sides have an aperture for an iron pin bar which is now missing, but ferrous corrosion now fills the apertures. The reverse is convex and the the front is rounded. Length 21.9 mm; width 15.44 mm; thickness 4.08 mm; weight 2.5 grams. The buckle frame dates from the mid 17th to early 18th century.
Class: frame
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1620
Date to: Circa AD 1740
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.9 mm
Width: 15.44 mm
Thickness: 4.08 mm
Weight: 2.5 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 7th February 2010
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SP1999
Four figure Latitude: 52.588475
Four figure longitude: -1.720984
1:25K map: SP1999
1:10K map: SP19NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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