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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SOM-8680A3
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy double-looped buckle of post-medieval date (c. 17th century), incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin. In plan, one loop is D-shaped and the other is trapezoidal. The upper surface of the frame is bevelled externally and the underside is flat. At the centre of the outside edge of the D-shaped loop is a double transverse ridge which would have acted as a pin rest. At each end of the pin bar is a triple moulding. The buckle is corroded and most of both faces are coated in black lacquer. A similar buckle has been published by Whitehead (1996, 91; ref. 568) dated c. AD 1575-1700.
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 1575
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm
Width: 23 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 3.23 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st September 2013
Rally details.
This object was found at Ston Easton, Somerset (01/09/13)
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Rally ticket 184
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Mendip (District)
Parish or ward: Ston Easton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST6353
Four figure Latitude: 51.27493717
Four figure longitude: -2.53180493
1:25K map: ST6353
1:10K map: ST65SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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