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BUCKLE
Unique ID: PAS-76BB7F
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A medieval copper-alloy buckle with an oval loop and integral plate, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin. The frame is bevelled on its front and flat on its reverse. The outer edge is slightly expanded. The plate is square where it connects to the frame. It then narrows in a step before tapering to a pointed, yet rounded, end. Towards the end there is an integral rivet of circular cross-section, now bent to one side. At the frame end there is a perforation filled with iron corrosion product from the missing pin. The front of the tapering end of the plate is decorated with three pairs of small transverse ridges. Traces of gilt survive in this area. Such buckles were plausibly used with spurs of 13th- or 14th-century date: see Egan and Pritchard (1991, 106; fig. 68).
The frame has been twisted upwards as a result of old damage. The buckle measures 29.6mm by 12.0mm (at the frame). It is up to 3.1mm thick, up to 5.3mm at the rivet. It weighs 1.97g.
Class: spur
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Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.6 mm
Height: 5.3 mm
Width: 12 mm
Thickness: 3.1 mm
Weight: 1.97 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 2nd April 2014 - Wednesday 2nd April 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Weekend Wanderers USA Tour March-April 2014
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Vale of White Horse (District)
Parish or ward: Lockinge (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU4288
Four figure Latitude: 51.58929397
Four figure longitude: -1.39514884
1:25K map: SU4288
1:10K map: SU48NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 1991 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 3) (1991) | London | Stationery Office Books | 106 | 68 |
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