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BUCKLE
Unique ID: LANCUM-4ACCFA
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper-alloy double-loop trapezoidal buckle of post-medieval date (c. 1620 - 1680 AD), complete with copper-alloy pin. The buckle frame has two symmetrical loops that widen from the pin bar and terminate in a widened, pointed lip between flat, circular corner knops. The back face of the object is flat, while the edges of the upper face are bevelled. There is a pin groove running across the widest point of both widened lips. The pin is tapered and rectangular in section, with one end coiled around the pin bar. The object has a matt brown-green patina. It is 33.81mm in length, 22.89mm at maximum width and 1.99mm in thickness. It weighs 5.05g.
Similar examples can be found in Whitehead (2003) Buckles, pp. 83-4, esp. nos. 522 - 524. The date range for the buckle under discussion has been given on analogy with these.
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 1620
Date to: Circa AD 1680
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.81 mm
Width: 22.89 mm
Thickness: 1.99 mm
Weight: 5.05 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: N5679
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cumbria (County)
District: South Lakeland (District)
Parish or ward: Heversham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SD5084
Four figure Latitude: 54.24922695
Four figure longitude: -2.76885748
1:25K map: SD5084
1:10K map: SD58SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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