Record ID: WMID-CCC8DF
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy double loop buckle of post medieval date c. AD 1600-1720. The buckle frame is sub-oval in plan with a thin strap bar at the mid point of the frame. It is damaged at one end. In profile the frame is bowed and it has rounded ends and bevelled edges. The pin is missing, presumed lost in antiquity. No decoration is present. The reverse of the frame is flat and undecorated. The exterior surface is grey in colour with a worn and pitted surface patina.   The buckle frame measures 37.5mm in length, 24.1mm width and is 2.3mm thick. …
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: WMID-CCA512
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy double loop buckle of post medieval date c. AD 1600-1720. The buckle frame is sub-oval in plan with a thin strap bar at the mid point of the frame. In profile the frame is slightly bowed upwards. It has rounded ends and trefoil sides and has bevelled edges. The pin is missing, presumed lost in antiquity. At one end of the strap bar is two decorative transverse grooves. At the other end are three transverse grooves.  The reverse of the frame is plain and undecorated. The exterior surface is grey in colour with a worn surface patina. &n…
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: WMID-CB3703
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy (pewter / tombac) two-part shoe or knee buckle of post medieval date c. AD 1660-1720. The buckle frame is broadly sub-rectangular with rounded corners and D-shaped in cross section. The frame is drilled at the mid point for a separate spindle, which is now missing, along with the pin and chape. The outer frame is decorated with three moulded knops either side of the spindle holes. The shorter sides have pin rest notches.  The reverse of the frame is plain and undecorated. The exterior surface is a mid-grey colour with either a tinned or white metal a…
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: WILT-EAF94E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval, possibly lead, sub annular shoe buckle dating to c AD1660-1720. The frame is drilled for a spindle which is missing. Two sets of raised circumferential ridges lie opposing each other on either side of the spindle holes. A moulded pattern of possibly egg and dart can be seen in places on the frame. Dimensions: 25.67min length; 17.96mm in width; 3.89g in weight.
Created on: Monday 25th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 30th December 2022
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Record ID: NARC-C5E669
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy Token of Post-Medieval date (AD 1500-1850). The object is a circular bi-faced token, Powell Type 7. One face depicts four an equal armed cross with a central pellet, and a pellet in each quadrant. The other depicts a central pellet within a circle and radiating curvilinear “petal”s. Diameter: 17.19mm, Thickness: 3.70mm, Weight: 4.2g The metal is grey/cream in colour with a slightly pitted patina. Lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as tallies, gaming pieces, tickets, weights, etc. and are believed to have been locally produ…
Created on: Thursday 23rd September 2021
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2022
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Record ID: LANCUM-9DBF91
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Blackburn with Darwen
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead trial piece for a double-loop oval buckle of late medieval to post-medieval date (c.1450 - 1650 AD). The object is flat on the underside and has the outline of a decorative double-loop oval buckle on the front face. The buckle design curves in at the strap bar and the inner edges of the loops curve in at each end. Each end of the strap bar appears to have moulded decoration, executed as a pair of knobs flanking the strap bar. The object has a patchy white and brown patina. It is 24.8mm in length, 17.1mm in width and 6.5mm in thickness. It weighs 16.79g. See CAM-FCB578 for anot…
Created on: Thursday 24th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 28th January 2019
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Record ID: NLM-7FF915
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy buckle fragment. Fragment from the upper or lower edge of a symmetrical rectangular buckle with an openwork frame with moulded florets at its corners, and with the socket for a separate steel spindle [lost]. A marked curvature in profile may suggest a use as a shoe buckle, to which this somewhat malleable material was not particularly well suited. The openwork technique here imitates the Artois style of shoe buckle. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1720-1790. Length: 41.1mm, Height: 8.6mm, Thickness (at spindle housing): 7mm, Weight: 4.74gms
Created on: Wednesday 6th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haxey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3EA385
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead probable model for an early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) buckle. Only the curved outer edge now survives, while the apparently straight and narrowed strap bar is missing. One face of the surviving section is convex and the inner edge of the other face convex. Both have faceted edges. The surface of the metal is pitted and corroded. Manufacture of a buckle in lead is extremely unusual and impractical and no others of this date have been recorded with the PAS (apart perhaps from NLM-A21445). Instead the object may have functioned as a manufacturing model - see para…
Created on: Friday 15th December 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-5BD66D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval to post-medieval (1350-1650) lead annular buckle frame with a central bar, missing its pin. The frame is triangular in cross-section, being flat to the underside. The central bar is circular in cross-section with a transverse groove in the middle. The frame has no decoration and a dark green patina. One side is curving in profile, probably through damage. The buckle measures 22.4 mm in length, 21.3 mm in width, 2.7 mm in thickness, 22.4 mm in diameter and weighs 3.20 g. The central bar is 14.8 mm in length and 3.3 mm in width. Similar annular buckles have been…
Created on: Monday 24th July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 9th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warsash', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-ED0915
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Less than a quarter of a post-medieval copper alloy sub-rectangular shoe buckle frame, with outside edge broken before mid-point, part of one side with a break immediately beyond the inward-pointing heart-shaped spindle housing with another, outward-pointing flanking heart on the surviving side. Engraved lines border the hearts and form curvilinear decoration on the outside edge. Perforation contains corroded fragment of iron spindle. Extant length 28.5mm. Extant width 10mm. c.1660 - c.1720.
Created on: Wednesday 31st May 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-AD2CFA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chopped fragment of the outer edge of a medieval or post-medieval circular lead weight. Diam. c.53mm. Weighs 11.68g. Perhaps 1100- 1600.
Created on: Friday 9th December 2016
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-7BF8CA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post medieval lead or lead alloy buckle frame in a zoomorphic/figurative style. This a piece of the pin plate and frame of a post medieval buckle, the buckle frame appears to be formed of two lobes with the space for the pin between. The design appears to be two heads facing one another, one is fairly complete with a sexfoil flower on his cheek, while the other is heavily damaged, with much of the buckle lost. The edges of the object are rounded in places and blistered in others suggesting that this has been partially melted. The reverse of the buckle is uneven and there i…
Created on: Monday 21st December 2015
Last updated: Friday 15th April 2016
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Record ID: NMS-1EBF95
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, bent and distorted unusual medieval copper alloy composite spur buckle; trapezoidal frame with one angle broken with the outside edge bent outward. The plate, with bevelled sides, tapers rapidly past a pin hole containing a cut-sheet pin, to a rectangular plate with two transverse C-sectioned tubes soldered onto the face, The plate is recessed on the reverse to accomodate a separate back-plate secured by twin rivets and with a bent and distorted integral hook sprining from the outer edge. Related to Whitehead (2003), nos. 183-4. Extant length c.51mm. Width of frame c.18mm.…
Created on: Tuesday 10th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-558432
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy buckle: oval frame with offset, narrowed bar, a D-sectioned pin and part of a trapezoidal sheet plate. The frame is asymmetrical, with one side being wider than the other and the outside edge tapering. This is the result of casting rather than wear. The plate, with a pin slot, frame recesses, one extant rivet and an engraved wavy line border, has its inside edge.Gilding has survived only on the front of the plate. Length and width of frame 12 and 19.3mm. Width of plate 12.5 - 11.5mm (rear part 9mm). Extant overall length 21.5mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 25th September 2015
Last updated: Friday 25th September 2015
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Record ID: NLM-9B9373
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible buckle. Cast frame for a thick single looped D shaped buckle. As the material is unsuitable for a fastener given its softness under stress, this might be a cheap version for purely decorative use, or a toy. The modelling does not seem fine or detailed enough for this to represent a maker's trial piece. The form recalls that of later Anglo-Scandinavian buckles, a point of some interest given that the period also sees crude brooches and - occasionally - strap ends made in lead as well as of more robust materials. This may alternatively be an annular line weight, though the…
Created on: Monday 17th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BF4B33
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon to post-medieval plano-convex lead spindle whorl. Diameter 18mm. Thickness 4.5mm. Hole diameter 6.5mm. Weight 7.340g. 11th - 16th century.
Created on: Monday 13th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 14th October 2014
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Record ID: NMS-B2DB62
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle frame, assymetrical with scallop-like moulding on the oval outside edge, the sides are expanded to accommodate drilled holes containing corroded fragments of the missing separate spindle, with expanded globular the ends of both sides and narrowed bar, pin missing. Length 33mm. Width 24mm. See Whitehead (2003) 97, no.599. c.1660-c.1720 AD.
Created on: Friday 14th June 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th December 2014
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Record ID: NLM-A21445
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible buckle. Cast D shaped buckle with thick outer edge to frame and narrowed strap bar. Patinated overall and slightly crumpled. While the form resembles that of Early Medieval buckles from either Early Anglo-Saxon or Viking contexts, the material is entirely unequal to function as a fastener. Examples of non-functional Early Medieval fasteners are known from Anglo-Saxon burial contexts, while a medieval buckle frame of lead was recently reported from near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (NLM-EF5EC2). Such objects might be token replacements for a non-functional setting, or even …
Created on: Monday 20th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
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Record ID: KENT-765344
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval belt buckle.
Created on: Friday 24th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 24th February 2012
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Record ID: WILT-0EB645
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1500) lead annular brooch or buckle, with an incomplete iron pin corroded in place. It measures 17.63x13.86mm (internal 10.82x7.84mm) and weighs 2.22g. The frame is circular in section (c.3mm diameter) and a little bent out of shape - it would have originally been c.15.5-16mm in diameter. The iron pin curls around the frame and survives to a length of 9.64mm. Small buckles (or possibly brooches) like this were thought to have been used on shoes.
Created on: Thursday 10th June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2010
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