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BUCKLE

Unique ID: CORN-2B5B8C

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Incomplete cast copper alloy trapezoidal shoe or knee buckle with a drilled frame for a separate spindle. The spindle, chape and pin are missing. The frame is symmetrical in plan and is moulded at the front and flat and plain at the rear and has concave sides. When viewed from the side, it has a downward curving profile. Iron corrosion product survives within each spindle hole, suggesting that the spindle was made of iron. Above each spindle hole, there are three moulded roundels, one at the centre and one on either side. These protrusions are flanked at each end by a splayed and flatter moulding. At the centre of each outside edge of the frame there is a transverse grooved pin rest with a lipped moulding at each side. The frame is corroded but there is evidence of patches of black lacquer which would have been painted on to the surface in order to protect the copper alloy beneath.

Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar buckle on page 99, No.617, which is dated from c.1660-1720.

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 1660
Date to: Circa AD 1720

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 35 mm
Width: 21 mm
Thickness: 3.6 mm
Weight: 5.4 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 7th September 2014

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Painted

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: SW95SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Whitehead, R.	2003	Buckles 1250-1800	Chelmsford	Greenlight Publishing	99,	No.617

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Created: 9 years ago
Updated: 9 years ago

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