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Unique ID: FAKL-EB0CE3
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper alloy buckle in the form of two C shaped loops linked together by an iron bar on which is threaded a sheet copper alloy pin. The ends of both loops are flattened and perforated to accommodate the bar. The sections of the loops are neatly formed with rounded upper faces, flat undersides and angled inner edges. This buckle is not flat, the two loops are at an angle of 46 degrees to each other. Corroded with some loss of surface.
The best parallels for this buckle appear in Ottaway and Rogers, 2002 where the form is dated to the late fifteenth-early sixteenth century and in Whitehead (2003, p. 9 No. 3) where an example is dated to 1450-1550.
Class: Oval
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Quantity: 1
Length: 26 mm
Width: 25.1 mm
Thickness: 2.4 mm
Weight: 4.48 g
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Other reference: B038
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Ottaway, P. and Rogers, N. | 2002 | Craft, Industry and Every Day Life: Finds From Medieval York | York | Council for British Archaeology | 2895, Fig. 1471 | ||
Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | Page 9 | 3 |