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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SOM-573555
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Post Medieval copper alloy oval buckle with surviving chape but missing the pin. The frame is drilled and the strap bar is separate and made of iron, although rusted it survives in situ on this example. The buckle frame has decoration in the form of six groups of ransverse incised lines alernating with plain areas and evenly spaced around the oval. The groups comprise 5 or 4 indented lines which alternate around the oval. The flat chape is pentagonal, widening away from the bar before narrowiing after a corner and with the centre of the outer edge projecting into an elongated knop which has a hole through it for a separate stud at the end. The front of the chape has a makers mark, possibly 'DM' stamped on it. The buckle measures 28.8mm in length (21.7mm excluding the chape), 19.9mm in width, 3.6mm in thickness and weighs 3.01g.
Whitehead (2003;97) illustrates similar buckles although none with the same decoration and suggests they are for shoes or worn at the knee and date to AD 1660-1720. The chape is a Whitehead (2003; 96) type I.
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Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1660
Date to: Circa AD 1720
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.8 mm
Width: 19.9 mm
Thickness: 3.6 mm
Weight: 3.01 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 19223
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
To be known as: Thornford CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing |
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