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Unique ID: CORN-AD2804
Object type certainty: Certain
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One loop and the strap bar of a cast copper-alloy double-loop buckle with a trapezoidal frame. The fragment is 20 mm long and 23.5 mm wide, 3.5 mm thick and weighs 4.3 g. The upper and lower frame elements are 2.5 mm wide with bevelled inner edges. The inner edge of the remaining frame is vertical, with a pointed knop on the outer edge and ovoid knops at the corners. The pointed knop has a transverse groove which acted as the pin rest, but the pin is now missing. There are convex lobed protrusions at both ends of the strap bar, which is flush with the frame and trapezoidal in section. The tinning survives on the upper surface of the frame and in patches on the back of the frame.
Whitehead (1996) illustrates a very similar trapezoidal buckle that is tinned on p.84, no.523, dating from c.1620-1680.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
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
Quantity: 1
Length: 20 mm
Width: 23.5 mm
Thickness: 3.5 mm
Weight: 4.3 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 11th May 2018 - Monday 14th May 2018
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Tin or tin alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
4 Figure: SW6728
Four figure Latitude: 50.10627548
Four figure longitude: -5.259892
1:25K map: SW6728
1:10K map: SW68NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | p.84 | no.523 |