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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SF-12918C
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A complete iron medieval annular shoe buckle. It is extremely small in size with a simple pin wrapped around the hoop at one end. The metal is heavily corroded.
Similar iron buckles have been found during excavations in London, most from mid-14th to mid-15th century contexts (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 59-61), although their chronology extends beyond this into the post-medieval period. Egan and Pritchard (ibid., 57) suggest that buckles of this period with a diameter or 20mm or less are probably from shoes.
Diameter: 12.12mm, thickness: 4.17mm, weight: 0.63g
Class: Annular
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4.17 mm
Weight: 0.63 g
Diameter: 12.12 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st August 2015
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Forest Heath (District)
To be known as: Icklingham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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