Record ID: LANCUM-A73AF4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy annular buckle frame or strap slide dating from the late medieval or early post-medieval period, that is c. AD1350-1650. Only the buckle frame and central bar survive; if there was a pin, it is now missing. The frame is sub circular in plan, and rectangular in cross section. The front of the frame consists of a central bar, D-shaped in cross section, surrounded by a circular frame. A narrowing is present at the centre of the central bar, probably to retain the pin. The exterior edge has been bevelled. The back of the buckle frame is plain. The buckle i…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A61163
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a cast copper alloy two loop bucke. A rectangular section stem or shank which extends between two flat elements with, in so far as they remain, curved edges, and both bearing a rayed pattern of grooves converging on the stem. Rusty stains on the central shank hint at the former presence of a ferrous metal component. This identification was kindly offered by Laura Burnett, with confirmation of this offered by Rob Webley, who comments as follows: 'This looks like the pin bar of a post-medieval buckle, the rust from the missing iron pin. Cf. Whitehead (2003, 65; e.g. no. 402)…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Legbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A5F423
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast oval single looped buckle with a pointed outer edge and the stub of one prong from an integrally cast spacer plate. A light drawn wire pin remains wrapped around the inner edge of the frame, passing through a drilled hole of diameter 2.7mm where plate met frame. Suggested date: Later Medieval, 1350-1540. Length: 30mm, Height: 25.5mm, Thickness: 2.8mm, Weight: 5.83gms.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Legbourne', grid reference and parish protected.