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BUCKLE
Unique ID: DENO-8B36B8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete medieval to post medieval copper alloy double loop buckle frame, missing the pin and the outer edge of one loop. The frame is decorated with ridges along the top and bottom edge while the bar remains undecorated. The surviving outside edge has two rounded knops at either end of the edge which flank six unevenly spaced grooves, with the centre groove larger to form the pin rest. The reverse of the frame is flat. The object has a patchy brown and green patina. Length 36.2mm, width 33.3mm, thickness 7.9mm and weight 9.81g.
Double loop buckles are very common, but this particular design with the two rounded knops at the corners appears to be unusual, and is not illustrated in either Griffiths, Philpott and Egan (2007) or Whitehead (1996).
Class: Double loop
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 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1720
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36.2 mm
Width: 33.3 mm
Thickness: 7.9 mm
Weight: 9.81 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 27th August 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Derby E8639
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Rotherham (Metropolitan District)
District: Rotherham (Metropolitan District)
Parish or ward: Harthill with Woodall (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK5079
Four figure Latitude: 53.30559324
Four figure longitude: -1.25112714
1:25K map: SK5079
1:10K map: SK57NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Griffiths, D., Philpott. R. and Egan, G. | 2007 | Meols: The Archaeology of the North West Wirral Coast | Oxford | Oxford University School of Archaeology | |||
| Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing |
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