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BUCKLE
Unique ID: PUBLIC-2A6494
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete, post Medieval, cast, copper-alloy, rectangular shoe buckle. The frame is rectangular in plan and in cross-section and is thickened at the centres where it is drilled to take the central spindle. There are the remnants of an iron spindle in both holes. The whole frame is curved. The upper surface of the frame is decorated with moulded lines of beading along both the inner and outer edges with a continuous line of pointed oval shapes between.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1690
Date to: Circa AD 1720
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm
Width: 29 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 7.6 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 10th January 2011
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: South Somercotes
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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