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BUCKLE
Unique ID: KENT-877EF2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete, Post Medieval C16th-C17th, copper alloy, asymmetrical buckle with moulded decoration on the loops. Six lobed knops on the outside edge of the rectangular loop. Lobed knops at two symmetrical points on the outer edge of the rounded loop. Lobed protrusion either end of the strap bar. Little wear, there is a rusty stain from a once iron tongue now corroded away. There is also an attractive tinned surface and with a number of fine oblique hand file marks on the front but slightly more irregular corroded flat back surface. This is likely to date between 1575-1700. Ref. Buckles 1250-1800, Ross Whitehead, Greenlight Publishing 1996, page 92 No. 577. The buckle is 23.55mm long, 18.32mm wide, 2.36mm thick and weighs 2.9g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1575
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 23.55 mm
Width: 18.32 mm
Thickness: 2.36 mm
Weight: 2.9 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 2nd October 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: Surrey (County)
District: Tandridge (District)
Parish or ward: Dormansland (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ4145
Four figure Latitude: 51.18684278
Four figure longitude: 0.01617989
1:25K map: TQ4145
1:10K map: TQ44NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | 92 | 577 |
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