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BUCKLE

Unique ID: CORN-4C0603

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Cast copper alloy 'cooking pot'-shaped loop buckle chape with a single internal spike and two cylinders at its attachment end, where it would have slotted around the spindle within the buckle frame. This tube is divided in half with a central gap for the tongue loop, but the tongue is now missing, as is the spindle that would have held it there. The spike on the inside of the loop was pressed through a hole in the latchet of the shoe, to secure the buckle. These loop chapes were only made with a single spike and fitted with a single tongue from the 1690s to about 1720, when two spikes were more common along with a 'pitchfork' double tongue.

Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on page 96, No.V, which is dated from c.1690s-1720.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1690
Date to: Circa AD 1720

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 29.7 mm
Width: 23.7 mm
Thickness: 3.4 mm
Weight: 2.62 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2008 - Thursday 31st December 2009

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: St. Kew (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

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.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Whitehead, R.	2003	Buckles 1250-1800	Chelmsford	Greenlight Publishing	96,	No.V

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Recording Institution: CORN
Created: 13 years ago
Updated: 4 years ago

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