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BUCKLE

Unique ID: CORN-DCEAA0

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Cast copper alloy double-loop oval spectacle buckle with and angled frame and a central narrowed pin bar which is flush with the frame, missing its pin. There is a transverse line on the outer edge of one loop of the frame, where the pin would have rested, but the rest of the frame is too corroded to make out any further decoration.

Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on page 55, No.316, which is dated from c.1500-1650.

Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 110, No.669, which is dated from c.1485-1600.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1485
Date to: Circa AD 1650

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 36.5 mm
Width: 23 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 3.44 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st August 2010 - Thursday 30th September 2010

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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 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Read, B.	1988	History Beneath Our Feet (1988)	Braunton	Merlin	110,	No.669
Whitehead, R.	2003	Buckles 1250-1800	Chelmsford	Greenlight Publishing	55,	No.316

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

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