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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NLM-148CAD
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy buckle fragment. Cast buckle pin with a stepped inner edge which is looped around the strap bar of an otherwise lost frame. A cast and slotted rectangular buckle plate of thickness 1.2mm is folded around the strap bar with a pair of dome headed rivets of head diameter 4.4mm (with another lost) passing through it with their ends bent against the back of the plate. The plate also has straight-sided cut-outs to accommodate the outer edges of the frame. The display face of the plate bears moulded decoration comprising diagonal lines crossing to form rhomboid frames which may have been filled by a further finer cross-hatched texture: the effect is vaguely heraldic. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1500.
Length: 37.6mm, Height: 28.2mm, Thickness (overall clear of rivets): 4.01gms
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: 37.6 mm
Height: 28.2 mm
Thickness: 4.01 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 30th August 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM33536
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Gainsborough
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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