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Unique ID: HAMP-31BDD3
Object type certainty: Certain
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A corroded cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame of medieval to early post-medieval date, incomplete in as much as it is missing its pin. The frame is formed of two conjoined ovals such that the sides incurve. The frame is bevelled both internally and externally on the upper surface, the latter more shallowly; the lower surface is flat. The pin bar thus has a trapezoidal, almost triangular cross-section. Small traces of dark brown corrosion product on the pin bar suggest that it might have been made of iron. The buckle frame has corroded to a dark red-brown colour with a dusting of yellow-brown corrosion product. One loop has been bent upwards slightly as a result of old damage as has one end of the pin bar. Buckles of this size with double oval frames have been found in late medieval contexts (cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 82-83; refs. 332-333), but as the form persists a later date cannot be ruled out.
Class: double-looped
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Quantity: 1
Length: 23.5 mm
Width: 19.1 mm
Thickness: 2.2 mm
Weight: 2.33 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st August 2011 - Wednesday 31st August 2011
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Other reference: E3195; NFR/1272
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SU3731
Four figure Latitude: 51.077137
Four figure longitude: -1.473221
1:25K map: SU3731
1:10K map: SU33SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 1991 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 3) (1991) | London | Stationery Office Books | 82-83 | 332-333 |