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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SF-5BD3F8
Object type certainty: Probably
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete and very worn cast copper-alloy object, possibly a buckle frame of Medieval to early Post-Medieval date. The surviving fragment is rectangular in form, oval in section, with incomplete arms/sides at top and bottom that are mostly incomplete due to old breaks. The front face of the object has two deep rabbetts creating raised square panels at top, middle and bottom. It measures 40.79mm in length, 11.34mm in width, 7.77mm in thickness, and 15.13g in weight.
This is probably the outer edge from a larger double looped(?) buckle frame of Medieval or later date. Similar frames are noted from London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: no. 443) and Norwich (Margeson, 1993: no. 154), as well as on the PAS database (e.g. SF-D57136, SF-E70664), although the current example does lack the transverse grooves (for applied wire/decoration?) seen on the noted parallels. It is likely to have performed a similar function, and as such probably dates to the later Medieval to early Post-Medieval date, c.15th-16th centuries AD.
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Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.79 mm
Width: 11.34 mm
Thickness: 7.77 mm
Weight: 15.13 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Walsham le Willows
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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