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BUCKLE
Unique ID: BH-7F8CDE
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A copper-alloy buckle dating to the twelfth to fourteenth centuries AD. The buckle possesses an oval frame with composite sheet plates. The pin is missing. The sheet plate, which is pierced by a single copper-alloy rivet, is loose revealing the forked spacer. The buckle measures 42mm in length, 24mm in width at the frame and a maximum of 14mm in width at the plate. It weighs 6.02g.
Similar examples are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1997, 78-80).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42 mm
Width: 24 mm
Weight: 6.02 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 9th August 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Wellingborough (District)
Parish or ward: Earls Barton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP8664
Four figure Latitude: 52.2674443
Four figure longitude: -0.74118707
1:25K map: SP8664
1:10K map: SP86SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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