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BUCKLE

Unique ID: CORN-231612

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A cast copper-alloy oval spectacle buckle. The strap bar is intact, triangular in section, 2.5 mm in width, but the pin is missing. The casting is crude; at one end of the strap bar is a small, chamfered knop and at the opposite end two shallow, parallel incised lines, on either side of a raised ridge, which continue the line of the strap bar to the edge of the buckle. The loops are D-shaped in plan and in section with bevelled vertical inside edges and rounded outer edges, but are otherwise undecorated. Some areas have dark green patina where the original surface survives.

Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar buckle in plan on p.54, no.305 and one with lobed knops at each end of the strap bar on p.55, no.319 which both date from c.1500-1650.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1650

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 35 mm
Width: 37.5 mm
Thickness: 3.3 mm
Weight: 10.12 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st October 2018 - Monday 29th October 2018

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Cubert (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SW7859
Four figure Latitude: 50.38887347
Four figure longitude: -5.12446958
1:25K map: SW7859
1:10K map: SW79SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Grassland, Heathland

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Whitehead, R.	2003	Buckles 1250-1800	Chelmsford	Greenlight Publishing	pp.54-55	no.305 & 319

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Created: 5 years ago
Updated: 5 years ago

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