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BUCKLE
Unique ID: BERK-110FAD
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy 'D' shaped undecorated medieval buckle and plate c. 1200-1400 AD. The pin is missing and the plate has two rivet holes with a single intact rivet. There is a possible lozenge or zoomorphic decoration to the front face of the buckle plate, which has a mottled and eroded brown/green patina. Similar decorated buckle plates and single loop buckles with narrowed strap bars date to the later medieval period.
Class: Meols type 2
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: 31.82 mm
Width: 19.56 mm
Thickness: 2.92 mm
Weight: 4.6 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: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Winterbourne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU4572
Four figure Latitude: 51.44520914
Four figure longitude: -1.35388619
1:25K map: SU4572
1:10K map: SU47SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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