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BUCKLE
Unique ID: PUBLIC-3443C1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval copper alloy single looped buckle with projections at the end of the strap bar. The pin survives and is intact. The frame is broadly 'D' shaped in plan with a straight, narrowed and recessed strap bar and a curved and slightly widened outer edge. There is a knop at each end of the strap bar projecting to the side opposite the frame. The pin is copper alloy, bent around the strap bar and narrowing in width as it extends to the outer edge of the frame. It measures 38mm long and 31mm wide.
Griffiths, Philpott and Egan (2007: 84) illustrate a similar buckle, no. 5, with a slightly more rounded outer edge which they assign to the late 14th century and suggest a similarity with the lombardic letter C (ibid: 88).
Notes:
Recorded by a volunteer on behalf of the Taynton Metal Detecting Club
Class: Meols type 5
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1450
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38 mm
Width: 31 mm
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Forest of Dean (District)
Parish or ward: Dymock (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO7231
Four figure Latitude: 51.976754
Four figure longitude: -2.40905
1:25K map: SO7231
1:10K map: SO73SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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