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BUCKLE
Unique ID: FAKL-E09635
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Remains of a cast copper alloy buckle, originally D shaped but more than 50 percent missing. Off-set bar, thickened front face around the centre of which is a 4.4mm wide, sheet metal roller marked with two incised lines, one of which appears to be made up of a line of cuts. In London buckles of this form occured in contexts with associations ranging in date from 1230 to 1400 (Egan and Pritchard 1991, Nos. 293, 301, 317).
Class: D shaped with roller
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1230
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 16.4 mm
Width: 19.1 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 2.31 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: A339
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: York (Unitary Authority)
District: York (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Fulford
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 1991 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 3) (1991) | London | Stationery Office Books |
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