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Unique ID: CORN-4BB515
Object type certainty: Certain
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Incomplete cast copper alloy buckle frame of a subrectangular shoe buckle with a drilled frame for a separate spindle. The frame is decorated with moulded leaves above the spindle hole and at the extant end of the frame. Beyond this end of the frame, the edge is extended into a side knop with three annulets in a row between two scrolls. There are also moulded scrolls of pellets between the leaves and annulets at each corner of the frame, and two moulded bands of pellets around the inside edge of frame. Half of the frame and the spindle are missing, as well as the chape that would have been attached to the spindle and secured the buckle to the shoe with its internal spikes.
Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on page 108, No.696, which is dated from c.1720s-1790s.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1720
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm
Width: 36 mm
Thickness: 2.4 mm
Weight: 7.81 g
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2008 - Thursday 31st December 2009
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SW9975
Four figure Latitude: 50.540143
Four figure longitude: -4.83804
1:25K map: SW9975
1:10K map: SW95SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | 108, | No.696 |