Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: DOR-590E93
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete copper alloy two piece buckle. The rounded sub-rectangular frame only remains. The frame is slightly arched and D-sectioned. The longer sides are thickened at the mid-point to accommodate the drilled holed for the missing separate cemtre bar. The shorter ends of the frame are slightly lipped on the inner edges..
Date: Post Medieval - c. 1690 - 1720
Dimensions: 34.06 mm x 25.80 mm x 4.50 mm
Weight: 6.59 g
Similar decoration is seen on Whitehead, R, 1996, Buckles 1250 - 1800, page 98, No. 662
Class: Two piece
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1690
Date to: Exactly AD 1720
Quantity: 1
Length: 34.06 mm
Width: 25.8 mm
Thickness: 4.5 mm
Weight: 6.59 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 30th September 2013
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Other reference: SCMS 022332
4 Figure: SY6869
Four figure Latitude: 50.5199037
Four figure longitude: -2.45274082
1:25K map: SY6869
1:10K map: SY69NE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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