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BUCKLE
Unique ID: ESS-0396D5
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper Alloy double loop buckle, dating AD 1350-1650. It is formed of two ovals with the central bar being where the two join. The pin is still present and is formed of a strip of copper alloy, which is looped at one end around the central axial bar and tapers to a point at the other. It has a dark brown colouration with spots of a light green patina. It has no decoration.
There are many examples on the database of double loop buckles and a similar example in Whitehead (2003, 54, no.310).
It is 22mm in length.
Reference: Whitehead, R. 2003. 'Buckles 1250-1800' Greenlight Publishing, Essex.
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Record created by the images and information supplied by finder. Artefact/coin not seen by FLO
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 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Diameter: 22 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Essex (County)
District: Uttlesford (District)
Parish or ward: Great Dunmow (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL6223
Four figure Latitude: 51.88202991
Four figure longitude: 0.35227697
1:25K map: TL6223
1:10K map: TL62SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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