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BUCKLE
Unique ID: CORN-AFFC5C
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper-alloy spectacle buckle. The buckle measures 28.5 mm wide, 26 mm long, 2 mm in thickness and 4.45 g in weight. The strap bar is intact, trapezoidal in section, 1.5 mm in width, but the pin is missing and there some wear on the bar which has also corroded to a thinner width at the centre. The D-shaped loops are plano-convex in section with bevelled inner edges. The strap bar is flush with the level of the frame and there are no terminal knops. The upper surface of the frame has the remains of moulded decoration which has mostly corroded away. Spectacle buckles were in common use between the 14th and late 17th centuries but most commonly in the 16th and 17th centuries when they appear to have been mass produced items. Spectacle buckles with decorative mouldings are generally Post-medieval in date.
Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar spectacle buckle with foliate mouldings on p.68, no.425, which is dated from 1550-1650.
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 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.5 mm
Width: 26 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 4.45 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 16th April 2019 - Tuesday 16th April 2019
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Veryan (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW9239
Four figure Latitude: 50.21436244
Four figure longitude: -4.91678144
1:25K map: SW9239
1:10K map: SW99NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehead, R. | 2003 | Buckles 1250-1800 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | p.68 | no.425 |
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