Record ID: WMID-B0F763
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy single looped D-shaped buckle with probable enamelled decoration, (length: 18.5mm; width: 20mm; thickness: 3.5mm; weight: 4.4g). This buckle is D-shaped or sub-oval. The loop is sub-triangular in cross-section, and its front and outside edge are decorated with linear designs, including recessed linear areas, which curve round from the side to the outside edge of the frame and appear to contain probable enamel (white/ yellow and red). Additionally, in the centre of the outside edge, there is a slight incised pin notch or rest, although the pin is now c…
Created on: Friday 4th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tong', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2C3F98
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval buckle frame, oval with broad hollowed and angled outside edge and offset narrowed bar retaining D-sectioned pin. The face of the broad outside edge has longitudinal frondiform grooves containing decayed (whitish) enamel, possibly in imitation of Limoges enamelled buckles. 18 x 25mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buxton with Lammas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-2E8E50
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
A complete medieval copper-alloy large annular buckle with cast pin attached (c. 14th century). The circular frame has flattened surfaces connected by rounded sides. The separate pin appears to have an open loop. Outside and below the loop is a rectangular moulded ridge with a central transverse groove, located at the junction of the loop and the shaft. The shaft tapers slightly towards the rounded off tip. Diameter: 51 mm Such buckles always seem to date from the 14th century, probably the late 14th century (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 58 and 64-5). There is a good stratified exa…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Sunday 21st April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-56E8F4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy shoe buckle frame of Post-Medieval, eighteenth century date (AD 1700 – AD 1800). Length 36.0mm, width 9.9mm and 3.6mm thick. Weight 4.26g. The fragment is part of one side of the frame. It has decorative mouldings on the front face and is plain and slightly convex on the rear face. Around the outer edge of the frame are five small lobes each with a central circular indentation. The mouldings at the front, commencing from the narrower end, consist of two annulets, three pyramid motifs and one annulet. The complete design on the frame may have consi…
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-5AF961
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman fitting, probably part of a buckle froma military belt set. Cast in copper alloy there is traces of tinning on the surface. The surviving fragment is sub-rectangular with a curved lower edge and a circular perforation projecting from the apex, which is perpendicular to the main fitting. The fragment is similar to buckles illustrated in Frere, 1984, Verulamium excavations volume III fig 13.94/95. This buckle is military and of Early Roman, pre-Flavian date. Parallels can be found in Grew and Griffiths,1991. Early Roman, c. AD 43-96.
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 30th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-6AE061
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete but severely corroded cast copper alloy and gilded double-looped buckle frame of Late Medieval or Early Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1450 – c. AD 1700). Length 32.4mm, width 26.2mm and 5.1mm thick. Weight 7.98g. Each loop is an elongated oval shape and the loop closest to the outside edge is slightly smaller than the other loop. This buckle is extremely corroded. However, it appears to be flat at the front and rear, excepting the outside edge which is moulded at the front and slightly convex at the rear. The outside edge is about 7.0 mm in length and 25.8mm in width. On th…
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-6B9FD5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper-alloy rectangular double-looped buckle, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin, but otherwise complete. The frame is plain, flat and wide, with one slightly distorted edge and a narrowed central bar. Corroded, the frame is 35.64 mm long by 23.83 mm wide. It is 2.15 mm thick and weighs 4.61 g. It can be compared with an example illustrated by Whitehead (2003, 75; no. 462), which he dates to c. 1570-1700, but without giving archaeological evidence in support of such a date.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ottery St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-D2AAA0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy buckle frame. An elongated D-shaped, single loop buckle frame. The pin is missing. The sides and outer edge of the frame are cast with Urnes style decoration. This comprises an asymmetrical design of interwoven sinuous interwoven beasts.The back is undecorated and slightly concave. The bar is slightly off-set from the frame and has a rectangular cross section. Dating from the late early medieval period, the second half of the 11th century (identified by Dr Kevin Leahy). Dimensions: 33.32 mm x 33.50 mm x 4.14 mm Weight: 10.21 g
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-1CCE83
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A corroded fragment of a cast copper alloy and silvered buckle frame of probable Post-Medieval, eighteenth century date (AD 1700 – AD 1800). Length 34.5mm, width 13.0mm and 2.3mm thick. Weight 2.21g. This fragment with old breaks is probably part of a double-looped buckle frame and is either the outside edge or the inside edge. It has three sub-oval perforations forming openwork. Surrounding the openwork on the front face is the remains of raised foliate decoration. However, due to corrosion it is not possible to describe the overall design. The front face also has traces of what …
Created on: Saturday 2nd June 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-017BA1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A broken plain buckle frame of double oval form. The original length was c30mm.
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-13B548
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval single-looped buckle of composite type with forked spacer dating to c. 1350 - 1450. The buckle is oval, lipped, with a small, rebated protrusion, and notched; the pin is missing. Both of the forked spacers are truncated. The front of the frame is bevelled externally to a flat front. The prongs of the spacer are rebated beyond the junction of frame and plate; they narrow along their length, with a significant stepped narrowing a little way beyond the junction. Beyond this both prongs narrow very gradually; one is significantly truncated, while the ot…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hardmead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-1711B8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy pin belonging to a buckle of Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1600 - c. AD 1800). Length 29.7mm, width 10.2mm and 5.1mm thick. Weight 4.33g. The shaft is convex at the front and flat at the rear. It is 24.0mm in length and where it joins the loop the width is 10.2mm. From the loop it tapers to a position about mid-way along its length where the width is 4.9mm. It then expands slightly before tapering to a point. Between the shaft and the loop, on both faces, there is a deep transverse groove. The loop is compact and sub-circular in cross-section with a central ci…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-2B0E31
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Very battered but probably Late Early-Medieval buckle, D-shaped with a narrowed strap bar. Two animal heads bite onto the strap bar, one at either side. The heads have engraved lines for mouths and punched dots for eyes. Compare SF-596EA5 and BERK-D9BAD7.
Created on: Friday 15th June 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-3B6406
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy fragment of a Roman military style zoomorphic buckle. A little less than half of the object survives. It is 28.5mm long, 27.1mm wide and 8.1mm thick. The buckle would have been in the form of two animal heads face to face forming the frame, and their tails forming the bar. Just one animal from this buckle survives. The side of the bar that would have joined the plate is flat and rough, with file marks visible. The opposite face of the bar is peaked, making the bar a pentagon in section. The bar thickens and becomes rounder as it merges with the frame at the sides and f…
Created on: Saturday 16th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 10th December 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-576A37
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman openwork rectangular buckle plate. At one end are four equally spaced hinge loops, the gaps of which would have received the interlocking loops from the buckle frame and pin. The two outer loops are narrower than the central two and each has a decorative groove filed in its upper surface; the inner loops are wider and have a pair of these grooves. Close to the hinge loops are three decorative circular holes, running across the width of the plate, each aligned with a gap between the hinge loops. Between these holes and the hinge loops are two small outer rivet h…
Created on: Sunday 17th June 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-7E3EB0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy cast horse-head D-shaped buckle of Hawkes and Dunning Type IB dating from 350-450 AD. Only the frame remains, the pin is missing. The frame is D-shaped with the strap bar being narrower than the rest of the frame. In section the frame is D-shaped. At the top of the curve are two horses heads. They are looking outwards with their backs to each other. One is smaller than the other, they are not symmetrical. Their eyes consist of concave circles. On the frame below are two ring and dots. The horses are stylised and look slightly bird-like. Their noses are quite pointed. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 12th December 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-91E451
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy buckle of probable early-medieval date. As a colleague writing about a parallel recorded on this database (BH-8DA095) notes, the style of the artefact bears strong similarities to a series of 13th to 14th century spur buckles found during excavations in London (cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 106; fig. 68). However, the zoomorphic nature of the plate's decoration is very similar to that seen on the 8th to 10th-century Saxon strap-end group (see Thomas 2003). A parallel given an early-medieval date can be found illustrated in Mills (2001, 19; ref. AS11), although the l…
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2018
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Record ID: GLO-FA9938
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy buckle with D-shaped frame and integral openwork triangular plate. Length 58mm, width 36mm, weight 15g. The frame has a large central triangular aperture; the edges are bevelled inside and out, giving a trapezoidal cross-section to each arm. The frame also has bevelled edges and a trapezoidal cross-section. The bar between the frame and the plate has a constriction in the centre for the pin; the construction is circular in cross-section and the pin is now missing. Flanking the plate just beyond the pin bar are two semicircular lugs, each of which have a circular rive…
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3809A5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy buckle frame which could be Roman or early medieval in date for which no published parallel could be found. The frame is oval in shape and measures 37.05mm in width by 21.53mm in length. It is difficult to see how this frame would have functioned, the sides and one edge have a D-shaped in section (a flat back face and rounded front face) but the other possibly inner edge has a rectangular flattened part with two small transverse grooves across the centre of its edge. This edge is worn and slightly uneven, so possibly it has been modified and could perhaps have ev…
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 6th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wordwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-3D6D97
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval silver shoe buckle. The rectangular frame has been drilled at the sides to hold a separate spindle, now missing. On the lower face is a punched maker's mark in the form of a lion passant gardant and the letters JA (or IA).
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Spatial data recorded.