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Unique ID: PAS-8C2B96
Object type certainty: Certain
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A damaged and incomplete copper-alloy post-medieval double-looped buckle frame, missing most of one of its loops as well as its pin. The pin bar extends beyond the sides in thin lobes, with recesses to each side which emphasise them. The reverse and upper surfaces are flat, and the frame bevelled internally and externally on the upper surface, giving it a semicircular cross-section. On the front of the outer edge of the extant loop is a centrally located eight petalled rosette. The buckle has a dark-green patina.
Length: 25.9mm; Width: 28.4mm; Thickness: 2.1mm; Weight: 3.13g
Such buckles tend to be attributed a later 16th-century date (cf. Egan 2005, 35; ref. 88), although the type must pre-date 1545 as it was found on the Mary Rose (Gardiner ed. 2005, 104; ref. 82A5069). The style of buckle is quite a common one: numerous examples are documented in the literature (from, for example, Norwich and Colchester: respectively, Margeson 1993, 31; ref. 174 and Crummy 1988, 17; ref. 1758) and on this database. On this example the damage is old, involving distortion of the surviving loop, and bending, in addition. The breaks have left only truncated stubs at the pin bar, one a mere vestige.
Class: double-looped
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1540
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.9 mm
Width: 28.4 mm
Thickness: 2.1 mm
Weight: 3.13 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 30th March 2015 - Monday 30th March 2015
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Other reference: Tour find MS2
4 Figure: SP5433
Four figure Latitude: 51.99283217
Four figure longitude: -1.21496059
1:25K map: SP5433
1:10K map: SP53SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Crummy, N. | 1988 | Colchester Archaeological Report 5: The Post Roman Small Finds From Excavations in Colchester 1971-85 | Colchester | Colchester Archaeological Trust | 17 | 1758 | |
Egan, G. | 2005 | Material Culture in London in an Age Of Transition: Tudor and Stuart period finds c.1450 - c.1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark | London | Museum of London Archaeology Service | 35 | 88 | |
Gardiner, J. and Allen, M.J. | 2005 | Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose | Portsmouth | The Mary Rose Trust Ltd. | 104 | 82A5069 | |
Margeson, S. | 1993 | Norwich Households: Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78 | Norwich | East Anglian Archaeology | 31 | 174 |