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Unique ID: WAW-9AAAE4
Object type certainty: Certain
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Medieval (late 14th to early 16th century) annular buckle pin: In plan, the copper alloy pin is a long slender rectangle with a rounded blunt tip. The opposite terminal has a rounded penannular loop or annular loop which would be fixed around the bar of the frame. On the upper surface the pin is decorated with three transverse ridges. The surface of the pin is in fair condition and has a mid-green patina. The buckle pin measures 50.32mm long, 15.26mm wide at the loop and 4.59mm thick. It weighs 6.63g.
Similar pins are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (2002), for example No. 28. Egan and Pritchard (2002:57) comment that these pins and frames from which they are commonly found are dated to the late 14th to early 16th century.
Egan, G. and Pritchard, F., 2002 Dress Accessories, c. 1150- c. 1450 (Medieval finds from Excavations in London) London: Boydell Press
Class: Pin
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1375
Date to: Circa AD 1525
Quantity: 1
Length: 50.32 mm
Width: 15.26 mm
Thickness: 4.59 mm
Weight: 6.63 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st August 2015 - Monday 7th March 2016
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SP1052
Four figure Latitude: 52.16617876
Four figure longitude: -1.85521368
1:25K map: SP1052
1:10K map: SP15SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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