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BUCKLE
Unique ID: LIN-6DFBB7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A large medieval copper-alloy buckle with integral forked spacer. The frame is D-shaped and the lip is pinched and notched. A forked spacer extends from the frame. A copper-alloy pin wraps around the pin bar. The pin has a small collar. The forked spacer is capped either side by a rectangular sheet of copper-alloy. The back-sheet has a small rivet hole in the centre at the attachment end where it would have secured to the front-plate. Either side of the hole is a small copper-alloy rivet. The front-plate is decorated with a perimeter of rocker-trace design, with a zig-zag motif running across the centre. The front-plate has a circular hole in the center at the attachment end, and a copper-alloy rivet either side.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 59 mm
Width: 25 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Diameter: 8 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Mablethorpe and Sutton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF5183
Four figure Latitude: 53.322389
Four figure longitude: 0.265587
1:25K map: TF5183
1:10K map: TF58SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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