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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SF-7FC635
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval to Medieval buckle, dating AD 900-1100. The frame has a sub-pentagonal shape in plan and its inner edge outlines a D-shaped loop. The outer edge of the frame is bevelled. The central part of the outside edge has a trefoiled lobe while there is a knop on the upper and lower edge. The front face is decorated with a sequence of ring-and-dot motifs, which outlines the D-shaped loop. The back face is flat and undecorated. The surviving pin-bar is narrowed and oval cross-sectioned.
As PAS database finds: SF-D8CB6B, SF-743571.
Length: 23.68 m
Width: 29.06 mm
Thickness of the outside edge of the frame: 2.57 mm
Weight: 4.35 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 900
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 23.08 mm
Width: 29.06 mm
Thickness: 2.57 mm
Weight: 4.35 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st August 2018
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Bromeswell
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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