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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SWYOR-937365
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper-alloy medieval 'locking buckle'. The frame is rectangular in plan, with rounded corners. The outer edge is wide (c. 6.5mm), flat and rabbeted (or notched) to accept and secure the U-shaped arm which would have extended from the bar. It also features a shallow pin rest. In profile the sides of the frame are expanded around the bar (to a thickness of 5.8mm) to receive the off-centred pin bar; from this point they taper, and the upper edge is concave.
Part of the bar survives in situ with the pin extending from a tube which enclosed the bar. The tube is formed of an integrally cast rectangular element, pierced all the way through for the pin bar, with protruding and tapering triangular pin. The curved arm is has broken off and is missing, but the lower bart of the bar is in place.
This artefact can be dated to the 14th century (Geake 2001, 28). Complete 'locking buckles' can be found illustrated in Ward Perkins (1940, opp. 273; Plate LXXVII), with a reconstruction drawing in Egan 2005 (37-38; refs. 116, 117). The object has a patchy light green patina. An almost complete example on the PAS database is HAMP-1E6A51.
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 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.72 mm
Width: 25.37 mm
Thickness: 5.17 mm
Weight: 8.27 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 7th January 2012 - Monday 13th February 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 1772
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Selby (District)
Parish or ward: Kirkby Wharfe with North Milford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE4940
Four figure Latitude: 53.853926
Four figure longitude: -1.256579
1:25K map: SE4940
1:10K map: SE44SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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