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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SOM-A5DBB5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper-alloy post-medieval double-looped buckle frame, incomplete in as much it is missing its pin. The pin bar extends beyond the edges in squared off lobes. The reverse and upper surfaces are flat, and the frame bevelled internally and externally on the upper surface. This latter is decorated on each outer edge by a six-petalled rosette with three outer petals and three inner. Traces of orange corrosion product around the pin bar's centre and one of the outer edge suggest that it was made of iron. The buckle is a red/brown colour but is sometimes covered in a black lacquer.
Such buckles tend to be attributed a later 16th-century date (cf. Egan 2005, 35; ref. 88), although the type must pre-date 1545 as it was found on the Mary Rose (Gardiner ed. 2005, 104; ref. 82A5069). The style of buckle is quite a common one: numerous examples are documented in the literature (from, for example, Norwich and Colchester: respectively, Margeson 1993, 31; ref. 174 and Crummy 1988, 17; ref. 1758) and on this database.
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Class: double-looped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1540
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40 mm
Width: 24 mm
Weight: 4.98 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 28th July 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: UKDFD Ref. No. - 42209
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Mendip (District)
To be known as: Near Wells
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crummy, N. | 1988 | Colchester Archaeological Report 5: The Post Roman Small Finds From Excavations in Colchester 1971-85 | Colchester | Colchester Archaeological Trust | 17 | 1758 | |
| Egan, G. | 2005 | Material Culture in London in an Age Of Transition: Tudor and Stuart period finds c.1450 - c.1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark | London | Museum of London Archaeology Service | 35 | 88 | |
| Gardiner, J. and Allen, M.J. | 2005 | Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose | Portsmouth | The Mary Rose Trust Ltd. | 104 | 82A5069 | |
| Margeson, S. | 1993 | Norwich Households: Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78 | Norwich | East Anglian Archaeology | 31 | 174 |
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