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BUCKLE

Unique ID: CORN-5A0615

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Fragment of a cast gilt copper alloy double-loop, sub-oval spectacle buckle with trefoil sides, with only one of the trefoil sides remaining attached to the strap bar. The rest of the frame is missing and would have had rounded ends. The strap bar is narrowed and recessed from the edge of the frame but has the appearance of being extended by the decoration of two parallel incised transverse lines across the surface of the frame. The frame is decorated with a punched crescent on either side of these lines, and a row of punched annulets below, following the curve of the moulded bifid sides.

Whitehead (1996) illusrates a similar buckle with trefoil sides and another with punched annulets on pages 70-71, nos.441 & 445, which are dated from c.1600-1720.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1720

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 33 mm
Width: 39 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 5.31 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 12th April 2012 - Thursday 12th April 2012

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Ludgvan (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SW5032
Four figure Latitude: 50.13526966
Four figure longitude: -5.49980675
1:25K map: SW5032
1:10K map: SW52NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Whitehead, R.	2003	Buckles 1250-1800	Chelmsford	Greenlight Publishing	70-71	nos.441 & 445

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Recording Institution: CORN
Created: 8 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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