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BUCKLE
Unique ID: PUBLIC-06CE75
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame of late medieval date, now missing its pin. The frame is broadly circular with a central pin bar; the pin is now missing. The reverse is flat, while the front is decorated with moulded raised and sunken panels that alternate around the inner and outer edge of the frame. This creates an effect described by Margeson (1993, 28; no. 159), discussing a parallel, as 'castellated'.
Diameter: 46.76mm; Thickness: 3.1mm; Weight: 17.06g
Another example can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996, 46; no. 269) which he dates to the 15th century, though without providing supporting evidence for this.
Class: Cassels type 1.2D
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.1 mm
Weight: 17.06 g
Diameter: 46.76 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 26th June 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: My reference. Index 6035
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Trevenner
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margeson, S. | 1993 | Norwich Households: Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78 | Norwich | East Anglian Archaeology | 28 | 159 | |
| Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | 46 | 269 |
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