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BUCKLE
Unique ID: CORN-E4CD04
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy small double-looped sub-annular knee buckle with bevelled internal edge. The frame is oval, in plan, with a narrowed central pin bar which is flush with the frame but missing its pin. There is some iron corrosion product around the pin bar which suggests that the pin was made of iron. The frame has a flat outer edge of the base and a lozenge-shaped profile, in cross-section, and a bevelled inside edge from the base. The original surface has mostly corroded to a light brown colour. The frame is 19 mm long and 16 mm wide and 2.5 mm thick and the pin bar is 10 mm long and 2 mm thick.
Similar buckle frames are illustrated by Whitehead (1996) on page 48, No.279, which is dated from c.1650-1720, and Read (1988) on page 145, No.966, dated from c.1660-1720s.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1650
Date to: Circa AD 1720
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 2.5 mm
Weight: 1.23 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 29th April 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Launcells (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SS2304
Four figure Latitude: 50.80844326
Four figure longitude: -4.51358589
1:25K map: SS2304
1:10K map: SS20SW
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 1995 | History Beneath our Feet (1995) | Ipswich | Anglia Publishing | 145, | No.966 | |
| Whitehead, R. | 1996 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | 48, | No.279 |
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