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BUCKLE
Unique ID: KENT-DB7DE1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A near complete cast copper-alloy buckle pin of mid Medieval to Post-Medieval date c.1250-1720AD.
Description: The buckle pin is simple with a lightly tapering rounded point and is unusually thick with a D-shaped cross-section (rounded convex top and flat bottom). The loop is slight damaged and this is likely to have caused its loss. there is a slight recess cross the top just prior to the loop on the top side. The underside of the buckle is flat save for a slight concave section by the point where the pin would have sat on the buckle. The pin is mottled varied shaded of mid brown to light green.
Measurements: 47.73mm long, 6.19mm wide, 8.94mm thick and 6.68g in weight.
Discussion: Geoff Egan (1991) illustrates a number of buckles with large pins similar to this in such as no.426 (Egan 1991, 95) and a number of large lost single pins (1991, 115), however due to the simple nature of this example narrowing the date is however not possible
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1720
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 47.73 mm
Width: 6.19 mm
Thickness: 8.94 mm
Weight: 6.68 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st March 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Dover (District)
Parish or ward: Nonington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR2653
Four figure Latitude: 51.23141105
Four figure longitude: 1.23578883
1:25K map: TR2653
1:10K map: TR25SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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