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BUCKLE
Unique ID: BUC-380AE9
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete and distorted cast copper-alloy buckle frame of Medieval date. It is missing most of the integral bar and the pin due to old breaks. The buckle would have been roughly D-shaped in section with offset and narrowed cylindrical bar. The shoulders of the frame extend to an expanded outer edge with central rectangular projection that has slight knops to top and bottom corners. The frame has been pulled out of shape on one side and broken on the other probably by the plough. The front face of the frame has traces of an incised decoration on the projection that presumably served as pin rests. The back face is flat and undecorated, and there are traces of gilding on some areas of the front face.. Similar Medieval buckles are noted from Norwich (Ayers, 1985: fig. 24, no. 7) and on the PAS database (for example SF-EA6296). These indicate a probable date in the 12th-14th centuries AD for the this example.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 55.43 mm
Width: 25.58 mm
Thickness: 2.87 mm
Weight: 4.64 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 4th November 2015
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
District: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Hanslope
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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