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BUCKLE
Unique ID: WAW-6A52DB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval buckle (mid 12th to mid 13th centuries): The copper alloy buckle frame is a 'D' shape with a slightly narrowed and off-set strap bar. The loop of the frame tapers in width towards the strap bar, and is at its widest at the apex of the frame. The loop is obliquely angled on the upper surface and flat on the reverse. The surface is undecorated. The pin is wire and curled around the strap bar. The frame has a heavily abraded surface with no traces of a patina. It measures 18.99mm wide and 14.72mm long from the apex of the frame to the strap bar. It weighs 1.6g.
Similar buckles are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (2002), Nos. 303 and 304 and these are dated to the mid 12th to mid 13th centuries.
Egan and Pritchard 2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press
Class: Cassels type 1.4A
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1150
Date to: Circa AD 1260
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 14.72 mm
Width: 18.99 mm
Weight: 1.6 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 25th October 2012 - Monday 2nd December 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Worcestershire (County)
District: Bromsgrove (District)
Parish or ward: Dodford with Grafton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO9471
Four figure Latitude: 52.33704904
Four figure longitude: -2.08948263
1:25K map: SO9471
1:10K map: SO97SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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