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BUCKLE
Unique ID: WMID-A71FF1
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper alloy buckle frame, of Early Post Medieval dating (AD 1600 to AD 1750).
Approximately 5-10% of the buckle frame is present. The buckle plate and pin are missing, presumed lost in antiquity, with the rest of the frame.
The frame fragment is trapezoidal in plan and rectangular in section. The front of the buckle frame has recessed foliate moulded decoration. The reverse is plain.
The buckle frame fragment measures 21.56 mm in length, 9.08 mm wide and 2.85 mm thick. It weighs 2.7 g.
Similar style decoration has been noted on no 491 (Whitehead, 1996, 79) from a double looped rectangular buckle frame, and has been dated to the Early Post Medieval Period (AD 1600 to c. AD 1750s).
Reference:
Whitehead, R. 1996. Buckles 1250-1800. Greenlight Publishing. Witham.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.56 mm
Width: 9.08 mm
Thickness: 2.85 mm
Weight: 2.7 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: TG - Paper - Folder 5
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Worfield (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO7294
Four figure Latitude: 52.543128
Four figure longitude: -2.414298
1:25K map: SO7294
1:10K map: SO79SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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