Record ID: YORYM-2E3785
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1250 - 1500. The buckle is a single looped D-shape with a narrowed and offset strap bar. A central recess to the loop holds a separate sheet roller and an ovate sectioned pin remains around the bar. A rectangular plate is looped around the bar by two narrowed integral strips with central slot to house the pin. The upper plate is wider than the lower plate and is decorated with an incised border. Three rivets are present through the plates; one just below the pin slot and two at the attachment end. A separate circular plate is pr…
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 14th June 2018
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Record ID: SUSS-2DD78B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy double-loop shoe buckle or knee buckle, dating to the period c.1700-1800. The object comprises the frame of the buckle, without the pin or rowel and tongue. The buckle frame has concave sides with central decoration of five transverse ribs. There is also decoration at the opposite ends of the frame, where the pin would have rested, again in the form of five transverse ribs, though in this instance the buckle ends are convex. The back of the buckle is undecorated.
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
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Record ID: SUSS-2D99DA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy double-loop buckle, dating to the period c.1600-1700. The object is composed of the buckle frame, missing its pin. There is iron staining on the central pin bar suggesting that the pin was originally iron. The buckle has a pointed oval appearance, with a pin rest upon each 'point' of the oval; this is in the form of a bulbous knop. Radiating from the pin bar, along the frame, are incised lines. The reverse of the buckle is undecorated.
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
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Record ID: BUC-2D5589
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy medieval buckle and plate, dating from c. AD 1350-1450. The buckle frame is D shaped, on the outer edge there are two knops with a seperate copper alloy grooved sheet roller in between. The inside of the frame is bevelled, and the frame is oval in cross section. The pin bar is slightly recessed from the frame, and squared off at each end. The pin is a piece of copper alloy looped round the pin bar, it is slightly distorted and narrows towards the end of the pin. The buckle plate is a sheet of copper alloy that loops round the pin bar, it is slightly smaller on …
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 5th June 2018
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Record ID: KENT-2BF46E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy single loop buckle with integral, forked spacers and buckle plate dating to the 14th century Description: The buckle frame is a narrow oval lipped on the outside edge for the tongue to rest in. The pin is looped around a narrow bar between the bulbous start of two three-stepped prongs of an integrally cast forked spacer designed to connect the now missing buckleplate. The pin is formed from a long thin triangular sheet of copper-alloy. The loop has a bevelled surface on the front of the buckle and the loop is a very shallow hemisphere in cross-section. …
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018
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Record ID: OXON-2BAA73
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double looped buckle of post-medieval date. The buckle has ornate floral mouldings on the outer frame. The strap bar is narrowed and there is a small knop floral moulding and V-shaped knop protruding from the frame edge either side. The pin is now missing. The remains of a black coating can be seen. The reverse is flat and undecorated. Ornate moulded buckles of this shape became popular around c. AD 1550 through until the early 18th century.
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
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Record ID: WAW-2B056E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (13th to mid-14th century) copper alloy buckle: The buckle is a D-shaped frame which has a narrowed and slightly off-set frame. The frame is expanded in width towards the apex. The pin is missing. The frame is abraded and has and incomplete light green patina. The buckle measures 13.46mm long, 14.71mm wide, and weighs 1.11g. Egan and Pritchard (2002) date a similar shaped buckle, No. 271-274, to the 13th to mid-14th century. Egan, G. and Pritchard, F., 2002Dress Accessories, c. 1150- c. 1450 (Medieval finds from Excavations in London) London: Boydell Press
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 23rd August 2018
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Record ID: WAW-2AE65C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (c. 1230 to c. 1400) buckle plate: The copper alloy buckle plate is sub-rectangular with a fold, off-centre, with a rectangular slot removed in the centre of the fold. The two remaining sections of the fold are broken, but not recently. The two plates which are formed by the break are riveted together with three incomplete rivets. The outer face of the plate has traces of gilding and the pattern of gilding suggests the rivet heads were perhaps domed originally and are since missing. The buckle and plate measures 37.58mm long, and 9.91mm wide across the frame. It weighs 2.…
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Monday 21st May 2018
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Record ID: NMS-2AA9A9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy single loop buckle dating to the period c. AD 1200 - 1400. D-shaped loop with an offset strap bar which has an oval knop at either end. The front edge is expanded, with a central constriction for a sheet metal roller, flanked at either end by a rounded knop. The roller exhibits a wide central groove for the pin rest flanked on either side by a series of narrow transverse grooves. The pin is missing. See: Egan &Pritchard, 2002, p. 74, no. 301.
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Monday 21st May 2018
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Record ID: NMS-2A9589
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete late medieval to post medieval copper alloy double loop buckle dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1650. The central narrowed strap bar is trapezoidal in cross-section. One loop is intact. Oval in shape with a projecting knop at top and bottom and an expanded outer edge tapering to a point. Of the second loop only two stubs remain. See: Whitehead, R, 2003, p. 55 for similar examples.
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Monday 21st May 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-2A8B4F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle and plate, Length: 63 mm, width: 21 mm, thickness: 5 mm, weight: 12.25 g. The object consists of a rectangular plate which has been folded over at one end to form a loop to hold the buckle frame. The fold is held in place with two circular rivets and a further two rivets are housed in the far end of the plate. The buckle frame is D shaped and has a slightly flared curved end. There is a tapering buckle pin, folded around the buckle frame sitting in a rectangular hole through the plate. There is possibly some incised decoration in the centre of the plate…
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th August 2018
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Record ID: SUSS-29F9B7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, copper alloy, annular buckle, Medieval, 13th-16th century, AD.1200-1550. Buckle comprises an annular frame with a copper alloy pin looped around it. The frame is circular in cross section. There is no pin bar recess or pin rest and the fram is free moving. The pin is circular in cross section with a small sub-rectangular knop just before the attachment loop. The loop is formed by being rolled round the frame. Length of pin: 44.47mm Width of pin: 3.95mm Thickness of frame: 4.09mm Weight: 15.46g Diameter of frame: 41.54mm
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018
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