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Unique ID: CORN-C93882
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper-alloy buckle pin with a drilled circular hole for the bar and an incised groove on both sides just below the loop where the pin then narrows and is recessed and tapers to a flattened point.
Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar incised and recessed pin on a shoe buckle on page 101, no.649, which is dated from c.1690-1720.
Read (1988) illustrates a similar incised pin on a shoe buckle on page 174, No.1150, which is dated from c.1720-1790.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1690
Date to: Circa AD 1790
Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Width: 8 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 3.47 g
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st November 2011 - Wednesday 30th November 2011
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SW5839
Four figure Latitude: 50.201432
Four figure longitude: -5.392519
1:25K map: SW5839
1:10K map: SW59NE
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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Read, B. | 1988 | History Beneath Our Feet (1988) | Braunton | Merlin | 174, | No.1150 | |
Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | 101, | No.649 |