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BUCKLE
Unique ID: BUC-180952
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post medieval cast trapezoidal double-looped buckle frame. The loops widen away form the strap bar and are symmetrical apart from their different outer sides. One has a cusped outer edge shaped into four rounded knops, two wider flanking two smaller, with very large projections from the corners. These projections curve away form the frame before ending in large circular terminals. The other loop has large rounded knops in the corners and the outer side is expanded in the centre into a triangle with an indent at the point creating a double point. The strap bar is narrowed. The edges are externally bevelled on the upper surface.
Whitehead (2003: 84) illustrates a similar example, no. 527, which he dates to c. AD 1620-1680.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1620
Date to: Circa AD 1680
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.72 mm
Width: 41.34 mm
Thickness: 2.55 mm
Weight: 7.95 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 2nd June 2011
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Buckinghamshire (County)
District: Aylesbury Vale (District)
To be known as: Stone
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing |
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