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BUCKLE
Unique ID: KENT-85B75B
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A complete copper-alloy medieval (c.1250-1400AD) D-shaped buckle with narrowed offset strap bar.
Description: The buckle is small, with thin bars of which the strap bar is offset. At the opposite end of the frame the loop has a central groove flanked on each side by two smaller grooves and a protruding stub creating transverse ribbed decoration . The decoration wraps around the frame front to back. The buckle pin remains in place and is formed from a piece of sheet copper-alloy. The back of the buckle is flat with some evidence of filing/bevelling. The colour of the buckle is a dark grey-green.
Measurement: 12.5mm long (includin pin), 15mmm wide. 1mm thick and 1.47g in weight.
Discussion: This is a relatively common type of buckle which is dated by Egan & Pritchard,(1991, 77, fig 312,314) to c.12-14th century
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 12.5 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 1.47 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Medway (Unitary Authority)
District: Medway (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ7474
Four figure Latitude: 51.43827237
Four figure longitude: 0.50207738
1:25K map: TQ7474
1:10K map: TQ77SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 1991 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 3) (1991) | London | Stationery Office Books | |||
| Griffiths, D., Philpott. R. and Egan, G. | 2007 | Meols: The Archaeology of the North West Wirral Coast | Oxford | Oxford University School of Archaeology |
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