Record ID: CAM-D87B76
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy post medieval double looped buckle probably dating to AD1650 - AD1700. It measures 23.14mm in length, 17.96mm at the widest point, 1.68mm in thickness and weighs 1.8g. The buckle is asymmetrical with one D shaped and one rectangular loop and is D shaped in cross section (flat on the underside). The D shaped loop is wider on the outside edge and thins at the pin bar, forming a crescent shape on the outer edge. This loop is 13.44mm in length, and 17.96mm wide, each measurement taken at the maximum point. The rectangular loop is slightly smaller than the D shaped one …
Created on: Thursday 3rd October 2013
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2020
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Record ID: CAM-0165A5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a cast copper alloy probable buckle. The frame is chunky and oval in cross-section, and has a zoomorphic terminal consisting of an animal head with bulbous brow and upturned snout. The open jaws may hold a tiny stub of the missing bar. It is covered with mid to light green corrosion product. 23.17mm long, 4.68mm thick, weight 4.1g. Although this was originally identified as a late Roman buckle, its rounded cross-section means that it is in fact much more likely to be an 11th- or 12th-century buckle (or possibly swivel loop) similar to SWYOR-246C26.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd November 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 27th September 2017
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Record ID: CAM-D3B7F7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy openwork spiked plate from a post-medieval buckle. The object consists of a trapezoidal flat frame with a short internal integral spike. The narrower end of the frame has two integral tubes forming a hinge, which would have rotated on the bar of the buckle frame. Length: 32.01mm, width: 20.85mm, weight: 4.73g. Compare an example from a complete rectangular buckle illustrated in Whitehead (2003) p. 101, no. 649, and dated there to c. 1690-1720.
Created on: Monday 8th December 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2017
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Record ID: CAM-44D354
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An unusually large buckle frame dating to the medieval period. The frame is D-shaped with a narrowed pin bar. The wide outside edge is decorated with an engraved zig-zag forming triangles; those with their apexes towards the external edge are filled with faint rocker-arm engraving. There is iron corrosion adhering to the pin bar. Most unusually, the underside of both loop and bar are hollow, and so the buckle frame has a C-shaped cross-section. Even more strangely, it has three separate small copper-alloy rivet-like pegs which can just be seen polished flat on the upper face. There is…
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Wratting Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-6E3086
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Roman to early Medieval copper-alloy buckle of Hawkes and Dunning Type IIA (1961). The object is decorated with transverse lines either side of the spur and at the wider part of the body, where a longitudinal line also gives the impression of a 'fin'. There is a linear pattern of dots next to this, followed by a triangle of dots and a solid diamond on the head. The buckle is c57.44mm in length and has a maximum width of 8.82mm.
Created on: Friday 23rd November 2007
Last updated: Monday 7th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-5DD032
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy dolphin buckle dating to the late Roman to early Medieval period (350-450 AD). The frame is open, flat and rectangular in section and is in the form of two stylised dolphins, balancing an egg or globe on their heads. The dolphins' eyes are rendered as moulded ring and dot motifs and they possess pairs of triangular crests on their backs. At the base of their tails extend two circular lugs with circular perforations, through which is threaded an axis bar. Part of the pin loop is wrapped around the axis bar as is a small fragment of the buckle plate. The buckle measures 2…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2006
Last updated: Monday 7th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stapleford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-280C00
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper-alloy buckle plate dating to the Roman period. The fragment comprises the attachment end, with three D-sectioned hinge loops. The loops are decorated with longitudinal grooves around their outer ends, and have circular perforations obscured and filled with iron corrosion from a separate bar onto which the pin and buckle frame would originally have been hinged. The loops extend from a flat openwork plate with arched perforations bordered by two surviving projections, each one behind a loop and ending in a three-pronged fork. The projection behind the third loo…
Created on: Monday 9th January 2006
Last updated: Monday 10th December 2012
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Record ID: CAM-52B265
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy buckle plate of early Anglo-Saxon date, late sixth or early seventh century. It is of Marzinzik's type II.23b-ii, buckle with triangular copper-alloy plate, and has a triangular aperture in the centre. At each of the three points of the triangle are circular recesses; the recess at the apex of the triangle is slightly larger (c. 12 mm diameter) than the other two (c. 8.5 mm diameter). One of the smaller recesses is filled with a white adhesive, cement or filler; the other two are empty. There is a small detached piece of copper-alloy wire, half of a circle 8.5 mm in dia…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: CAM-E9C9C5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Just over half a double-looped buckle. Trapezoidal loop with oblique groove at both corners of outside edge. Bevelled sides. Narrow round-section bar with small lobe at both ends. Iron stain on pin.
Created on: Thursday 16th October 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-ECC7B5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A D-shaped complete buckle frame. The outer edge is rounded and expanded. The bar is narrowed.
Created on: Thursday 16th October 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-ECD541
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A D-shaped complete buckle frame. The back face of the frame is flat, with file marks clear visible. The front face is decorated with transverse grooves, except for the bar which is undecorated.
Created on: Thursday 16th October 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-ECE183
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A D-shaped complete buckle frame. The outer edge is expanded and had moulded deoration on the front face. The bar is narrowed.
Created on: Thursday 16th October 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-0BCC04
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
1: A complete copper-alloy buckle frame. The frame is oval in shape measuring 21.7mm by 19.3mm in size, it weighs 3.99g. This frame has an expanded outer edge, rectangular in shape with three transverse grooves. The bar is slightly narrowed and offset. 2: A complete copper-alloy oval buckle frame, 21.0mm by 16.2mm in size and 2.21g in weight. The outer edge of this buckle is expanded, rectangular in shape and has four parallel transverse grooves across it. The bar is narrowed and offset. Both of these buckle frames are medieval and 14th century in date. They are si…
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-0C2D25
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small bent oval buckle frame with offset bar. The bar is bent and the pin is missing.
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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