Record ID: DEV-A630B9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a medieval copper-alloy composite buckle. The remains of an iron rivet are still evident with similarly sized and shaped copper-alloy frame fragments extant on both sides of where the pin would sit, being roughly rectangular in shape and cross section with a lobed half end which would have been the tops of the spacer forks. The thin section attaching the pieces of frame would have held a pin (now missing) and are rectangular with square cross sections. The globular piece is the only extant piece of frame which would have been visible. Measurements: Length:…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tatworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-A3662A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmented cast, copper-alloy, double-looped buckle of post-medieval date (c. AD 1500-1700). The buckle has trapezoidal loops and consists of a narrowed pin bar with a copper-alloy pin still attached. The outer face is undecorated with knops at the corners and small lobes at the ends of the pin bar. The reverse is flat and undecorated. One of the loops remains intact and the other loop has been broken with a fragment missing. Measurements: The length of the larger fragment is 26mm and the smaller fragment is 12mm. The width of both the f…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: DEV-A2EFE4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy, symmetrical, double-loop buckle, of post-medieval date (c. 16th century), incomplete as the pin is missing. The buckle consists of a pair of oval loops with single knops located at the sides. The buckle is undecorated but has been bent inwards at the central frame.  Measurements: 34mm in length, 22mm in width and 2.24g in weight.
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: DEV-548F0A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilded copper-alloy single-looped buckle dating the Medieval period, c. AD 1250-1300. The frame is D-shaped with an expanded and angled outer edge. The strap-bar is narrow and off-set, and the pin is missing. The buckle is decorated with curvilinear comma-shaped crescentic elements, decreasing in size from the centre to the outer edge. Traces of gold gilding remain. Measurements: Length: 16.9mm, Width: 23.2mm, Thickness: 1.73mm (1.5mm on the bar), Weight: 2.54g Similar shaped buckles can be seen in Whitehead (1996), no 53 and date mainly…
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colyton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-41ACD2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy cast double looped trapezoidal buckle frame of post-medieval date (c. AD 1620-1680).  The buckle frame is sub-rectangular, with pointed terminals. There are knops either end of the strap bar which is D-shaped in cross-section. The bar is narrow with straight sides. The loop holes are square in shape rather than rounded. The buckle frame is sub-rectangular in cross section with bevelled outside edges remaining in some places. The pin is missing and the buckle has broken into two pieces with the break occurring thro…
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 15th June 2023
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Record ID: DEV-AE2599
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete (so far as its pin is missing) Medieval to post Medieval double looped buckle frame c.1350-1650.  The frame is symmetrical with two D- shaped loops, both with a slightly pointed outer edge and wear along one side. The frame is convex at the front and flat at the rear. The centre bar is narrowed from the frame, is D-shaped in cross section and has slight knops at either end. Dimensions: 32 mm length; 3 mm at the thickest point. Width  - 22 mm Weight: 2.98 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 15th June 2023
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Record ID: DEV-5F7A18
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle probably of post-medieval date. The buckle was formed of a pair of oval loops; one has been lost to an old break at the junction of frame and pin bar. The extant loop has an effectively flat reverse, with possible central concavity from the casting process. The front is bevelled both externally and internally, the latter more steeply. There are hints of very small protrusions at each end of the pin bar. A thick sheet copper-alloy pin is still attached.  Measurements: 15 mm in length, 22 mm in width and 2.35 …
Created on: Monday 6th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
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Record ID: DEV-640E58
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy annular buckle of medieval dating c. AD 1250-1400. The frame is circular in plan and cross-section. A copper-alloy pin survives wrapped around the frame. There is no decoration, nor pin constriction.  Measurements: 17 mm in diameter with the pin being 18 mm. The weight is 1.773 g See similar on this database: KENT-26EE84 and SUR-FB56BC. Buckles of this module have been published from London, found in 13th- and 14th-century contexts (Egan and Pritchard 2002, 57).
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
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Record ID: DEV-6211CC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper-alloy buckle plate (c. AD 1200-1400), now folded round on itself into a squashed loop. It is uncertain whether this folding was for a particular purpose, perhaps for reuse as a thimble, of if it was more accidental. Around half of the rectangular plate survives, having been broken a the weak point where is would have been folded and recessed for a buckle frame, with a slot for the pin; one of the tabs survives. At the terminal there are two circular perforations, one towards each corner. The external surface of the plate is decorated with a punc…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2023
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Record ID: DEV-600AB5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy single-looped medieval buckle, of Meols type 10, incomplete insofar as it is missing its pin (c. AD 14th century). The frame is oval, and relatively thick, with an expanded outer edge moulded with two outward protruding lobes (consistent with type 10), with a four ridges between the pair: two slightly larger ridges flanking two thinner ones, the latter forming pin rest in the centre. The pin bar is narrowed and offset, with a slight central notch for retaining the pin, now missing. Measurements: 23 mm in length and width. The weight is 7.76 g. It may be comp…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2023
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Record ID: DEV-5FBE74
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast, copper-alloy, double-looped buckle of post-medieval date (c. AD 17th century). The buckle has trapezoidal loops and consists of a narrowed pin bar with a thick, sheet copper-alloy pin still attached. The outer face has bevelled sides and is decorated with knops at the corners and small lobes at the ends of the pin bar. There are engraved transverse lines at centre of each outer edge, acting as pin rests. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The buckle is bent in profile, probably from use rather than damage. Measurements: 33 mm in length…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2023
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Record ID: DEV-5F61E2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy double looped oval buckle, dating to c. AD 1550-1650, incomplete insofar as it is missing its pin. The frame is decorated with bilobed knops at two symmetrical points on the outer edge of each loop. There should be a pair of rosettes positioned at the centre of the outer edge of each loop but the design is very worn. Lobed knops protrude at either end of the pin bar, which is narrowed and slightly bent inwards. The frame is bent in profile, most likely from damage rather than use.  Measurements: 49 mm in length, 35 mm in widt…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2023
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Record ID: DEV-5EFC2F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A distorted copper-alloy, symmetrical, double-loop buckle, of post-medieval date (c. 16th century), incomplete only insofar as it is missing its pin. The buckle consists of a pair of oval loops. A small rounded knop is present either end of the central pin bar. There is a moulded rose at the centre of each outer edge, perhaps with six petals on each rose. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The frame is angled in profile with one of the loops having been bent upwards; it is unclear how much of this is as a result of use and how much post-depositiona…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: DEV-C25ABD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast, copper-alloy post-medieval asymmetrical buckle dating to c. 1575-1700, incomplete insofar as it is missing its pin. One loop is broadly rectangular and the other loop is D-shaped. The inside of the D-shape loop has a pointed protrusion which could be where the pin rested. The pin bar is notably narrow, though the frame overall has suffered from corrosion, depriving us of much of the original surface and thus any decoration. The reverse of the buckle is flat. Measurements: 38.5 mm in length, up to 26.5 mm in width and 3.78 g in weight. See W…
Created on: Monday 9th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2023
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Record ID: DEV-570277
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper-alloy rectangular double-looped buckle frame, incomplete only insofar as it is missing its pin. The central pin bar is circular in cross-section, narrowed and set back. Its terminals are moulded with knops at the end of the pin bar. Both outer edges are angled up slightly and elaborately moulded into six evenly spaced, disc-shaped knops arranged in a row. Between the discs are deep recessed grooves with only a relatively thin bar running along the inner edge and holding the side together. Each disc has a central engraved horizontal groove running around the outer…
Created on: Wednesday 4th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: DEV-BA6838
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame dating to the post-medieval period (c. 16th century), incomplete insofar as it is missing its pin. The frame is formed of a pair of shallow oval loops either aide of a narrowed bar which has low, moulded knops either end. The outer edge is enlarged to accommodate a moulded rosette, with defined petals. The front of the frame is bevelled both externally and internally, and the reverse is flat forming a broadly trapezoidal cross-section. As well as the pin being absent, in profile, one of the buckle's …
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2022
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Record ID: DEV-BA383C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame dating to the post-medieval period (c. AD 1525-1600), incomplete insofar as it is missing its pin. The frame is formed of two oval loops with lobed knops at two symmetrical points on each outer edge. The central pin bar has a knop on each end. The frame is undecorated with broadly trapezoidal cross-section formed of external and internal bevelling on the front and a flat reverse. Patches of a dark, possibly lacquer, coating have been retained on the surface. Measurements: 33 mm in length, 20 mm&nbs…
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2022
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Record ID: DEV-FD2F91
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy buckle of post-medieval date (c. AD 1550-1650), incomplete only insofar as it is missing its pin. The object is a double-looped oval buckle with moulded decoration, probably worn vine scroll. The frame is externally angled on the front, bevelling echoed internally on the reverse. It has been bent around the centre in profile, presumably through use. Possible traces of a black lacquer coating are retained in the depressions of the moulding. Measurements: 31 mm in length, 19 mm in width and 4.87 g. Without illustrating an identical example, Whitehead (200…
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2023
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Record ID: DEV-FCD96C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A double-looped buckle frame dating to the post-medieval period (c. AD 1525-1600), incomplete insofar as it is missing its pin. The frame is formed of two oval loops with lobed knops at two symmetrical points on each outer edge. The central pin bar has a knop on each end. The frame is undecorated with a flt reverse, and both internal and external bevelling on the front. It is curved it profile, presumably through use. Measurements: 23 mm in length, 37 mm in width and 5.08 g in weight A similar buckle is illustrated in Whitehead (2003, 63) see no. 382 which i…
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2023
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Record ID: DEV-6AA008
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded medieval/post-medieval copper-alloy double looped buckle dating to c. AD 1350-1650. It is an undecorated complete buckle conisting of two oval loops with the frame being angled in cross-section. The sheet copper-alloy pin is still attached. Measurements: 32 mm in length, 29 mm in width and 4.38 g in weight. The pin has a length of 14 mm.
Created on: Wednesday 12th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
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