Record ID: WILT-A77158
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post-medieval cast copper alloy double-loop buckle with a feather or leaf motif, dating to c. AD 1575-1700. The frame is asymmetrical and consists of a central horizontal pin bar with a slightly protruding knop at each end, which subdivides the frame into a D-shaped loop and rectangular loop. The corners of the rectangle are incised with diagonal lines. The D-shaped loop has a feather or possible leaf motif on the medial point of the rounded loop. It is decorated with an incised mid rib with diagonal lines extending from it. The central horizontal pin bar and D-sha…
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: WILT-2D320D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval cast copper alloy buckle with integral plate dating to c. AD 1250-1500. The object consists of a single loop buckle frame with an integral cast plate and has an additional plate attached to the underside by rivets. The frame is sub-oval in shape with a lobed knop at either end of the strap bar. There is no central groove for the pin to rest and the buckle is undecorated. The integral plate contains four rivet holes and a central iron-corroded hole where the pin would have been located. The pin is missing. A secondary rectangular flat sheet of copper alloy is atta…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: WILT-2AED0F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval cast copper alloy single loop oval buckle with ornate outer edges, narrowed and offset strap bar, dating to c. AD 1250-1400. The frame consists of two barrel mouldings which are separated by a deep central groove which served as a pin rest. Decoration consists of four transverse, incised lines, two of each are located on either side of the central groove. The pin is missing and the reverse flat and undecorated. Length: 29.6 mm; Width: 19.7 mm; Thickness: 4.1 mm; Weight: 4.22 g. cf. Whitehead (2016: 21) no. 80 which gives a date of AD 1250-14…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: WILT-29EE79
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval or post-medieval cast copper alloy double-looped spectacle buckle dating to c. AD 1350-1720. The frame consists of two oval loops divided by a central bar. The loops are D-shaped in plan and cross-section, and the reverse is flat. The buckle has a dark green patina and is undecorated. There is iron corrosion on the central strap bar and the pin is missing. The bar is slightly recessed from the front edge of the frame. Length: 21.9 mm; Width: 17.5 mm; Thickness: 2.3 mm; Weight: 1.84 g. Similar buckles are illustrated by Egan and Pritchard (1991: 8…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: WILT-F33963
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy possible spur buckle, dating to c AD 1250 - 1400. What remains is the buckle itself and an extended integral bar at the attachment end which is foreshortened by an early break . The buckle frame is D shaped, and D shape in section, with an extended outer edge on which there is an extended central sub lozengiform knop flanked on both sides by  two pointed knops. A D section wire pin, now bent, is wrapped around the bar through a circular perforation which pierces a simple collar below the bar. A wider collar below is pierced a…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-5F37B1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy D shaped buckle, dating to c AD1350-1400. The buckle has two large projecting, flat topped globular knops on the outer edge of the frame. It has a narrowed, offset pin bar with a small knop at each end. The pin is missing. It may have had a black surface treatment. Dimensions: 15.7mm in length; 19.3mm in width; 1.30g in weight. cf. Meols Type 10  (Griffiths, Philpott and Egan 2007: 90-91, no. 545).
Created on: Monday 6th March 2023
Last updated: Saturday 17th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-5DDE0B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy buckle and plate, dating to cAD 1150 - 1500. Cassels, 2013, 1.3D. It is missing its pin. The buckle is D shaped, with extend outer edge and small lip where it is notched for the pin. It has a narrowed and offset pin bar, with small rounded knops at each end. The plate is a simple sheet, folded over the pin bar, with parallel sides throughout, and a single rivet, still in situ, centrally placed at the attachment end. Between the two plates is a cream coloured mass, near the attachment end, but it is not clear whether it is a spacer, or …
Created on: Monday 6th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 12th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-FA1642
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy buckle plate, dating to c. AD 1200-1450. The item is a single sub-rectangular sheet, broken at the fold and with only the front plate surviving. The plate is recessed at the fold, with a rectangular slot cut to accomodate a lost pin. The plate tapers a little towards the attachment end where there are two rivet holes, one in each corner. There is a single, centrally placed rivet hole close to the buckle end. An incised border is situated close to the edge. A green-brown patina is on the surface as well as traces of gilding. The buckle plate mea…
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 13th January 2021
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Record ID: WILT-FA030D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Medieval copper alloy probable buckle plate, dating to c. AD 1200-1450. The artefact consists of a sub-rectangular sheet of copper alloy, broken at both ends and partially along one long side. The plate is decorated with a double-stranded punched rectangular border, defining a field further divided by a large lozengiform border. The lozenge contains a double-stranded cross. The object measures 24mm in length, 13.6mm in width, 0.6mm in thickness and weighs 1.02g.
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 13th January 2021
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Record ID: WILT-2BECC5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete oval frame Medieval buckle with composite plate dating to c. AD 1300 - 1400. The rectangular section frame is almost circular with a point at the apex. There is a circular rivet hole, now missing the rivet, just below the frame and a forked spacer over which rectangular sheet plates, now loose, have been attached. The attachment ends of the plates have been cut or broken in a zigzag shape leaving three triangular projections. A central rivet is in situ at this end. The ends of the plate closest to the buckle itself appear damaged and it is not clear whether or not the sh…
Created on: Friday 23rd October 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th December 2020
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Record ID: WILT-999B2E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval copper alloy double loop oval buckle, dating to c. AD 1500 - 1650. There is no pin or plate. The hoops are sub-triangular in cross-section. There is a narrowed and slightly offset strap bar which is triangular in section, each end of which extends as a moulded narrow knop into, but not beyond, the width of the hoop. There is evidence of white metal coating on the upper surface of the buckle. Dimensions: 37.05mm in length; 24.58mm in width; weight 7.4g
Created on: Friday 16th October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2020
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Record ID: WILT-DB88F0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy buckle plate, probably dating to c. AD 1100-1500. The plate is subrectangular and consists of copper alloy sheet, it is expanded at the fold to accommodate a lost bar, with a circular perforation below the bar, for a lost pin. The plate is crudely perforated three times by separate copper alloy rivets, arranged in a triangle with one rivet at the centre of the attachment end. Length 23.4mm; Width 16.0mm; Thickness 5.2mm; Weight 2.87g.
Created on: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: WILT-EFE44C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy buckle plate dating to c AD 1200-1400. The buckle plate is incomplete and is bent and damaged. The remnant of the buckle plate comprises a rectangular sheet of copper alloy. The attachment end is truncated in line with two rivet holes, with a third, central rivet hole below the buckle end. Beyond the central rivet hole are the truncated remnants of one of the recessed hooks that looped over the offset bar of the buckle frame and then looped back down to the central rivet. There is evidence of gilding on the front of the buckle plate. The plate weighs 2.02g a…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Last updated: Monday 29th April 2019
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Record ID: WILT-5CC7FD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An medieval copper alloy buckle dating to c AD 1150 - 1250. The buckle is missing the bar which holds the pin. The object comprises an ovoid frame with hooks extending from each of the long sides of the oval frame. The hooks terminate in a zoomorphic head which may be a snake or possibly a dog and which face each other across the centre of the front of the buckle. The zoomorphic heads comprise a snout which broadens out and forms a small 'brow' ridge and on top of the head are two raised horns or ears. The hooks are slightly raised above the frame (at one side the zoomorphic terminal …
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2019
Last updated: Friday 26th April 2019
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Record ID: WILT-DCD0FC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy buckle, of Cassel's type 1.4B, dating to AD 1300-1600. The buckle consists of a double oval frame, cast in one piece and which is slightly bowed. Each loop is oval in plan and the buckle is 'waisted' with a narrow bar dividing the two loops at the narrowest point, with moulded decoration at the ends of the central bar. The bar is triangular in cross-section. A single piece of metal is looped around the bar to form the pin, which is not fixed in one place but can move along the bar and rotate 360 degrees around it. Length: 20.0mm; width…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th April 2019
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Record ID: WILT-C8438D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy medieval single loop buckle dating to AD 1200-1400. The buckle consists of an oval frame with a narrowed and offset bar, with two prominent obliquely angle knops flanking the narrowed outside edge which is decorated with a series of transverse ridges. This buckle is 22.5mm in width, 22.7mm in height, 4.3mm in thickness and weighs 3.6 grams. cf. Cassels 2013, type 1.3J
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Friday 26th April 2019
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Record ID: WILT-3EEEAA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One sheet plate from a probable Medieval composite buckle or strap end, probably dating to c. AD 1250-1500. Probably originally one of two copper alloy sheet plates. The plate is sub-rectangular, tapering into a rounded end. The opposite end of the plate has a central circular perforation to accommodate a pin or rivet, c. 3mm in diameter. One face retains traces of solder. Dimensions: 20.9mm in length; 13.6mm in width,11.1mm where the plate narrows into the rounded end; 0.6mm thick; 0.64g in weight.
Created on: Monday 25th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 25th March 2020
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Record ID: WILT-3E0CF6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle dating to c. AD 1250 - 1500. It is D shape in form and in section but the rear bar is offset and circular in section. There is a rectangular, inward facing, knop mid way along the length of the rear bar. There is a transverse ridge on each side of the loop, just above the rear bar and a large globular knop on a rounded collar on the outer edge of the frame. Dimensions: length 22.6mm; width 12.42mm; thickness 4.8mm; weight 2.13g. cf Griffiths, Philpott & Egan (2007: 94) nos. 622-629.
Created on: Monday 25th February 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2019
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Record ID: WILT-33E87F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy single looped buckle, of Cassels' (2013) type 1.5C, probably dating to c. AD 1350-1400. The buckle consists of a sub-circular shaped frame with an offset bar flanked by knops. A large knop, with transverse collar, expands from the outer edge of the buckle frame, there is evidence of wear around the bar suggesting the original presence of a pin, Dimensions: 17.28mm in length ; 12.19mm in width; 1.32g in weight. cf. Griffiths, Philpott & Egan (2007: 94) nos. 622-629.
Created on: Monday 7th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2019
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Record ID: WILT-332FDF
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy buckle plate, probably dating to c. AD 1250 - 1400. The surviving fragment comprises of the front plate only, folded roughly in half on the transverse axis, and with the back plate lost to an old break. The plate is rectangular and undecorated, with a rectangular slot at the buckle-end to accommodate a pin. Dimensions: 18.23mm in length and therefore c 36mm in length originally; 15.40mm in width; 1.47g in weight. compare to similar examples on this database, such as SOM-AC0CFC.
Created on: Monday 7th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2019
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