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BUCKLE
Unique ID: HAMP-D751E8
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A corroded, cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame of medieval to post-medieval date, incomplete in as much as it is missing its pin. The small frame is formed of two conjoined ovals such that the sides incurve. It is bevelled shallowly externally on the upper surface, with more pronounced bevelling internally; the underside is flat. The pin bar has a trapezoidal, almost triangular cross-section with traces of red-brown corrosion at one end product probably indicative of a now absent iron pin. Due to extensive corrosion the overall surface of the buckle frame suffers from numerous angular depressions, which indicate the loss of the original surface. The buckle frame has corroded to a mid-green colour, although the areas of loss on the upper surface exhibit a darker green-brown shade. One of the loops of the buckle has bent through old damage.
Class: double-looped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 23 mm
Width: 19.7 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 1.9 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E3257
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
To be known as: Broughton CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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