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BUCKLE
Unique ID: PUBLIC-26CB38
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An unusual Medieval buckle of which only the plate, pin and part of the frame survive. The plate is a folded rectangular sheet-metal buckle plate. It is recessed for the frame, slotted for the pin, and has a single rivet hole, with a copper-alloy rivet in situ. The front plate has two ring and dot markings which are visible but faint.
About half of the copper-alloy wire buckle pin survives, looped around the bar. It is 0.98mm in diameter. The frame is unusual because it is made from sheet copper alloy. The remaining bit of frame is 14.14mm long x 3.55mm wide x 1.88mm thick with a 2mm hole for a spindle drilled at the end.
This example was probably similar to NMS-F105F6 which has a circular bar at the outer edge of the frame, with a sheet roller round it. This design is similar to Meols type D but is not cast. ESS-2AF318 is a strap clasp which also has similar construction. Another buckle on the PAS database with sheet copper alloy frame is NMS-E13256. These are all Medieval in date, but the use of ring and dot decoration is similar to that on book clasps and may suggest a later date.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.1 mm
Width: 10.63 mm
Thickness: 3.91 mm
Weight: 1.9 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 16th September 2009
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: South Cave (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9132
Four figure Latitude: 53.776392
Four figure longitude: -0.620608
1:25K map: SE9132
1:10K map: SE93SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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