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BUCKLE
Unique ID: CORN-D044B3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete tinned copper alloy double-looped oval buckle, missing most of one of its loops, with an openwork heart-shaped motif terminating in a trefoil knop on the outer edge of the remaining loop. The strap bar is narrowed but flush with the frame, and there is a lobed knop at either end of the bar. The pin is missing that would have curled around the strap bar. There are patches of tinning on the upper face of the frame and on the back, but most of the orginal surface has corroded away.
Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar buckle frame on page 70, No.439, which is dated from c.1550-1660.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1660
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35 mm
Width: 30 mm
Thickness: 2.2 mm
Weight: 4.53 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st September 2013 - Thursday 31st October 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Tin or tin alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: St. Kew (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW9975
Four figure Latitude: 50.5401434
Four figure longitude: -4.8380396
1:25K map: SW9975
1:10K map: SW95NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehead, R. | 1996 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | 70, | No.439 |
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