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BUCKLE

Unique ID: DOR-9FB5F9

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A copper alloy double looped buckle dating to c.1550-11650. The pin is missing. The frame has unusual irregular, slightly scalloped inside edges as the ouside edges, the loops are broadly pentagonal. The bar is narrowed and has small lobed knops at either end. There is a pointed expansion to each outdise edge and a moulded decoration to the frame, but this is now worn. The reverse is flat and undecorated. There are traces of black coating on the upper surface.
Reference: Whitehead 1996, pg.65 A similar buckle was found in the same find spot at the rally: DOR-9F5405 also one found in Somerset on the PAS database: PUBLIC-FA3A62
Date: Post Medieval.
Dimensions: 33.15mm x 20.18mm x 1.82mm.
Weight: 1.61g.

Class: Double looped

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 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1650

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 33.15 mm
Width: 20.18 mm
Thickness: 1.82 mm
Weight: 3.12 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 7th October 2018

Rally details.

This object was found at Piddletrenthide October 2018

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: FRS 84

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Black coated

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Piddletrenthide (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SY7199
Four figure Latitude: 50.78983684
Four figure longitude: -2.41278403
1:25K map: SY7199
1:10K map: SY79NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Whitehead, R.	2003	Buckles 1250-1800	Chelmsford	Greenlight Publishing	nos.405, 415.

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Recording Institution: DOR
Created: 5 years ago
Updated: 5 years ago

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