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BUCKLE
Unique ID: WILT-E978C0
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy, single loop D shaped medieval buckle, dating to the period AD 1350- AD 1450.
Overall, the object has a complete single loop buckle frame, the pin is missing and the plate is incomplete. The frame is lipped, narrows its edge at the top, and is decorated with two prominent knops flanking five fine grooves. This is located on the narrowed top edge of the frame. The pin bar is narrowed and recessed.
The plate is not integral to the frame and is formed of a single sheet of copper-alloy which has been wrapped round the recessed pin bar. There is a small circular perforation at the broken end of the strap where a rivet would have fitted, and a square perforation between the two separate attachments. The broken edges and corners of the strap have smooth edges, but one corner lips and curls onto itself.
The length of the buckle and strap is c.48.21mm, the width (frame) is 21.46, (strap) is 14.75mm, and the weight is 5.76g.
An example of this object can be found in Whitehead (2003) page 22, No. 87. Both share the same decoration and narrowed, lipped frame with the knops and grooves, as well as neither having an integral plate.
Class: Meols type 8
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1450
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 48.21 mm
Height: 28.34 mm
Width: 21.46 mm
Weight: 5.76 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 4992
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Salisbury
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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