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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NLM-5EDB0F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy with silver plating buckle. Cast single looped buckle with a thickened and flattened outer edge and with a narrowed and offset pin bar. A cast pin is looped around the bar. The outer edge is decorated in its display face by an incised and elongated saltire. Traces of white metal plating appear on both front and back of the frame. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1400.
Length: 19.7mm, Height: 15.9mm, Thickness: 3.8mm, Weight: 3.30gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.7 mm
Height: 15.9 mm
Thickness: 3.8 mm
Weight: 3.3 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 8th October 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM27033a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Southorpe
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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