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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SOM-62E695
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A slightly corroded and bent rectangular double-looped buckle of Post-Medieval date. The longer sides are slightly incurved, the loops tending towards the trapezoidal from the rectangular with wider outer sides. The frame is bevelled externally and internally on the front. The back is flat. The pin bar is trapezoidal in cross-section. A copper alloy pin is looped loosely around it, bevelled to each side and flat on the back. The frame can be seen to have been bent downwards in the centre and up at the ends. This bending may be post-depositional or a function of its use. The buckle is 35.3mm long, 23.3mm wide and 2.9mm thick including the pin. It weighs 6.35 grams.
The buckle is paralleled in Whitehead (1996, 75; ref. 464); who dates this type to c. 1570 to 1700 AD. SOM-6E9D97 on this database is similar.
Notes:
Artefact recorded from details and photographs kindly supplied by finder.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1570
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.3 mm
Width: 23.3 mm
Thickness: 2.9 mm
Weight: 6.35 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 19th December 2011 - Monday 19th December 2011
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
District: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Wrington CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing |
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