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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SUR-CD964D
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A bent fragment of a large late medieval cast copper alloy single loop D-shaped buckle frame. The outer edge is thickened and angled, with a notched pin rest. The strap bar is missing but looks to have been narrowed and offset, with lobes at each end.
Notes:
Cf Whitehead (2016), p19, number 52.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.2 mm
Width: 52.1 mm
Thickness: 6.7 mm
Weight: 8 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Surrey (County)
District: Mole Valley (District)
Parish or ward: Bookham South (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ1253
Four figure Latitude: 51.26516247
Four figure longitude: -0.39608533
1:25K map: TQ1253
1:10K map: TQ15SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing |
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