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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SWYOR-0E7CD6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy Medieval buckle with separate buckle plate, dating from AD1300-1400. The buckle has a narrowed and offset pin bar, convex sides and a thick rounded outer edge with a central pin rest but no other decoration. The plate consists of a thick metal sheet, rectangular in shape, folded over around the pin bar and notched to take the pin. The pin is missing. On the underside of the buckle the plate is tapered slightly to a blunt, squared end. There is a single rivet fastening the open ends of the plate together; this rivet is integrally cast as part of the upper side of the plate. The buckle has a dark brown patina and gilding can be seen on the top of the buckle plate.There are also traces of gilding on the outside of the buckle. It is 51.92 long, 25.22mm wide and 7.97mm thick. It weighs 19.07gm.
Similar buckles are illustrated in Griffiths, Philpott and Egan, 2007, Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast, plate 14, numbers 574 & 575. This example does not fit happily into a Meols type, but can perhaps be considered as a plain variety of Meols type 6.
Class: thick outer edge
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 51.92 mm
Width: 25.22 mm
Thickness: 7.97 mm
Weight: 19.07 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st July 2011 - Monday 10th October 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS Reference No. 1625
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Selby (District)
Parish or ward: Kirk Smeaton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE5015
Four figure Latitude: 53.62915
Four figure longitude: -1.245412
1:25K map: SE5015
1:10K map: SE51NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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