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BUCKLE
Unique ID: GLO-C4E10A
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy oval buckle that may have originally been a spur buckle. This has an oval frame with a loop to the rear where the pin would have been mounted this area is now encrusted with iron corrosion, further iron corrosion is also present on the front of the frame, this is the remains of the pin. At the back of the buckle is a short projection that maybe the base of a long thin integral buckle plate that is now truncated. On the underside of the plate is a single integral rivet. The surface of the artefacts is gilded.
Class: spur
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 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18 mm
Width: 10 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 1.01 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st November 2015 - Thursday 1st September 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
District: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Wraxall and Failand (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST4871
Four figure Latitude: 51.43559917
Four figure longitude: -2.74946067
1:25K map: ST4871
1:10K map: ST47SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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