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BUCKLE
Unique ID: HAMP-E2B9E8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A slightly corroded rectangular double-looped buckle of probable post-medieval date. The buckle is incomplete in as much as it has lost its pin. The loops are rectangular with rounded corners. The frame is broadly semi-circular in cross-section with a flat lower surface, there are slight depressions on this surface. The frame can be seen to have been bent slightly upwards at one side, when viewed in profile; the pin bar is bent downwards at its centre. There is evidence of iron corrosion product on the pin bar, just off centre, at the centre of the frame opposite where the pin would have rested. Such buckle frame are undiagnostic and could date from the medieval period, although a later date seems more likely.
Class: double-looped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.45 mm
Height: 3.78 mm
Width: 20.95 mm
Thickness: 2.1 mm
Weight: 2.39 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 4th September 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E2951
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: East Hampshire (District)
Parish or ward: Alton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU7138
Four figure Latitude: 51.136879
Four figure longitude: -0.986575
1:25K map: SU7138
1:10K map: SU73NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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