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BUCKLE
Unique ID: KENT-ED20B9
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An in complete cast copper-alloy post-medieval double-loop trapezoidal buckle c.1620-1680 (Whitehead 1996, 82).
Description:
The buckle survives as one loop of a trapezoidal frame with lobed protrusions at either end of the pin bar. The remaining outer edge is pointed. The outside edge of the buckle is bevelled while the lower surface is flat, giving the bars of the frame a D-shape in cross-section. The buckle's pin is missing. The buckle is mottled dark and light green.
Measurements: 22.72mm long, 20.28mm wide, 1.84mm and 2.3g in weight.
Notes:
For similar examples see Whitehead (1996, 82 nos.510-513) and a number of examples on this database such as: WILT-2B7F3D, WILT-39247C,KENT-D79106 and BH-97EA26.
Class:
Double looped trapezoidal
Sub class: with moulded decoration
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1620
Date to: Circa AD 1680
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.72 mm
Width: 20.28 mm
Thickness: 1.84 mm
Weight: 2.3 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Basingstoke and Deane (District)
Parish or ward: Whitchurch (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU4747
Four figure Latitude: 51.22026956
Four figure longitude: -1.32840113
1:25K map: SU4747
1:10K map: SU44NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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