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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SOM-44D35C
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy medieval buckle dating to the period c. AD1350-1400. The buckle has a single D-shaped frame, with a narrowed and offset axis bar. Its outside edge has four bands of transverse moulding which are flanked by two prominent knops. It is missing the pin, which would have rested in the groove between the two central mouldings. There is a brown-grey patina on the surface, and the decoration on the reverse is identical to the decoration on the front. It is round in section at its outer edge and at the axis bar, and the rest of the frame is oval in section. It is Meols type 10.
Cf. Meols, p. 85, fig. 2.5.1, no.10.
A similar example can be found in Egan (1991) p.74, no. 299, which dates to AD1350-1400.
The buckle measures 15.88mm in length, 16.03mm in width at its widest, 3.44mm in at its thickest and 1.21mm at its thinnest and weighs 1.95g.
Class: Cassels Type 1.3J
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 15.88 mm
Width: 16.03 mm
Thickness: 3.44 mm
Weight: 1.95 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: receipt no. 016435
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: Misterton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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