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BUCKLE
Unique ID: LANCUM-4BA738
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete Medieval to post-Medieval copper-alloy double-looped buckle (c. 1350-c. 1650).
The pin is missing.
This buckle frame is convex at the front and flat at the rear. Each oval loop is similar in size and internally bevelled at the front. There is a cut or break in one of the loops. The bar is triangular in cross-section.
The frame is green with patches of a darker green patina.
Similar buckles have been published and dated c. 1350-c. 1650 AD (Whitehead 2003: 53).
Whitehead, R.2003. Buckles 1250-1800. Greenlight Publishing, Witham.
Class: Double-looped
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: Exactly AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 27 mm
Width: 23 mm
Thickness: 1.5 mm
Weight: 2.86 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lancashire (County)
District: Lancaster (District)
To be known as: Yealand
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
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