Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council
CC License:

Image use policy

Our images can be used under a CC BY attribution licence (unless stated otherwise).

BUCKLE

Unique ID: SF-F5D987

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Frame and part of forked spacer plate from a composite buckle, made from greyish copper alloy. The frame is oval, 31 mm wide, and has a pointed pin rest. The pin is made from a greener copper alloy and is wrapped around a constriction between the two forks of the spacer. It has a projecting rectangular lobe at the junction of the shaft and the loop. The spacer plate is of the type illustrated in Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 325, with two steps from the pin constriction to the long forked arms. Both of the long arms are missing with only short stubs extending from the steps. There are traces of solder on both faces of the spacer, and one of the arms also has a green copper-alloy rivet passing through it. This is very unusual; it might be expected that breaks would be mended here with solder. Total surviving length 34 mm. These buckles date to the 14th century.

Class: composite

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1300
Date to: AD 1400

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Width: 31 mm
Weight: 7.42 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st October 2000

Personal details

This information is restricted for your access level.

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
To be known as: Roudham

Spatial coordinates

Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Woodland
Specific landuse: Coniferous plantation

References cited

No references cited so far.

Similar objects

Find number: SF6183
Object type: BUCKLE
Broadperiod: MEDIEVAL
Frame and integral forked spacer plate from a composite buckle. The frame is rather crudely made and small (14 mm across). The forked spacer …
Workflow: Published

Find number: SF5248
Object type: BUCKLE
Broadperiod: MEDIEVAL
Fragment of frame and forked spacer from a composite buckle. The frame was originally oval, with a triangular section, and less than a quart…
Workflow: Published

Find number: NMS-264D75
Object type: BUCKLE
Broadperiod: MEDIEVAL
Fragment of copper-alloy composite buckle of 14th- or early 15th-century date. A tiny stub of one side of the frame survives, of slender prop…
Workflow: Awaiting validation

Timeline of associated dates

Report a mistake

Audit data

Recording Institution: SF
Created: 20 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

Other formats: this page is available as qrcode json xml geojson pdf rdf representations.