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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SUR-0C5F56
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy buckle plate, possibly medieval and possibly of continental origin. The plate has three trailing extensions each of which ends in a circular projection, each pierced to take a rivet (though the central projection is missing and one is broken. The body of the plate is rectangular with four transverse grooves, each of which is filled with punched marks. The lower plate is much shorter and narrower and bears faint engraved lines. An iron bar survives for the frame and this could suggest the frame was iron as well. The one surviving rivet is also iron.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.26 mm
Width: 22.76 mm
Weight: 8.48 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 11-1591
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Surrey (County)
District: Epsom and Ewell (District)
Parish or ward: Ewell (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ2162
Four figure Latitude: 51.344214
Four figure longitude: -0.2641
1:25K map: TQ2162
1:10K map: TQ26SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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