Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-068DB5
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete Medieval (1250-1350) cast copper alloy rectangular buckle frame of Meols type D and plate, missing its pin and sheet roller (from the frame). It measures 37.64x20.47x3.99mm and weighs 4.2g.
The rectangular frame (16.76x20.47mm, internal 11.24x16.92mm) has a narrowed bar and oval-sectioned outside edge (2.5x2.3mm). The adjoining arms have swollen rounded ends at the this point, to the outside only.
The buckle plate is sheet copper alloy with narrowing sides, angling inwards and narrowing to 14.08mm wide where it curves around the bar and below narrowing from 16.85 to 15.58mm at the open end. It is 24.5mm long. The back plate is slightly shorter and narrower (23.40mm long, 14.10mm wide). At the open end are two in situ copper alloy rivets, max.3.99mm tall. In the slot for the pin there is iron corrosion.
Class: Meols type D
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1350
Quantity: 1
Length: 37.64 mm
Width: 20.47 mm
Thickness: 3.99 mm
Weight: 4.2 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2012 - Thursday 7th June 2012
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Other reference: Wiltshire Heritage Museum Form No. 1459
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Incomplete
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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