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Unique ID: HAMP-C43DB8
Object type certainty: Certain
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A damaged and incomplete medieval composite buckle with integral hollow box plate cast in copper alloy (15th century AD). The frame is almost entirely missing apart from part of the side at the junction. The extant frame consists of a rectangular strip at the external side of which is part an elaborate scrolled moulding defined by grooves. At the junction of frame and plate is an oval perforation (W.: 4.7mm); the pin is missing. The base of the frame is decorated with a pair of transverse grooves, one of which is interrupted by the pin slot. Below, the junction is narrowed and thinned compared to the frame in a waisted section. The plate beyond is sub-rectangular, now highly abraded at the attachment end. It is hollow, open at the sides, to accommodate the strap which was held in place by single central rivet at the attachment end. The box plate has been squashed slightly as a result of old damage. On its upper surface the plate is decorated with the sacred monogram, 'ihc', in blackletter script. The elements between the letters are similarly raised due to grooving but have small pecks along one side. A similar buckle can be found illustrated in Fingerlin (1971, 169; ref. 291), with another recorded on this database, ref. NMS-D28810, this latter also bearing the sacred monogram. This example has a dark-grey/green colour with patches of lighter corrosion product and evidence of tinning on the upper surface.
Class:
hollow plate
Inscription:
ihs
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1375
Date to: Circa AD 1450
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.7 mm
Width: 28.2 mm
Thickness: 4.7 mm
Weight: 8.45 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 20th May 2012
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Other reference: E3503; 5
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SU7355
Four figure Latitude: 51.289465
Four figure longitude: -0.954539
1:25K map: SU7355
1:10K map: SU75NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Fingerlin, I. | 1971 | Gürtel des Hohen und Späten Mittelalters | München | Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien Band XLVI | 169 | 291 |