Record ID: DUR-455F88
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy zoomorphic buckle dating to the later or sub Roman (early medieval) period (c.AD350-450) The buckle is D shaped, the frame having a D shaped profile with flat reverse while the pin bar is rounded.  The front edge of the buckle frame comprises of a pair of highly stylised facing dolphin heads, much worn and with little detail apparent, meeting to form a pin rest. From each corner on the outside of the buckle loop project a pair of horse heads, facing away from each other. The horse heads have slightly opened mouths, punched annulet eyes, and are further dec…
Created on: Thursday 22nd June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 6th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skeeby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-0ABC89
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver buckle of late Early Medieval to Medieval date, about AD 800 - 1200. The decoration is perhaps of Carolingian style, or maybe Carolingian inspired Winchester style, or transitional from Urnes/Ringerike to more Medieval forms. The buckle has an expanded and angled outer edge and sides, which are chunky and deeply moulded. There is a narrow bar with a spiral knop at each end of the bar. The outer edge is decorated with a palmette or other foiliate design, rather like a fleur-de-lis, with three fronds projecting from a narrow waist, and four scroll ends exten…
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2022
Last updated: Friday 13th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Thirsk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-A69218
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 - 1650. The buckle is a single looped sub-rectangular shape with expanded, splayed feet and a narrowed and recessed strap bar. The feet bear outwardly projecting lobed knops. An integral oval on ovoid knop projects from the outer edge of the frame. The pin no longer remains. The metal has a dark green/brown patina and is in good condition. The buckle is 35.2mm long, 28.6mm wide, 4.2mm thick and weighs 7.7g. Similar examples are illustrated in Whitehead, p.29 and are dated to circa AD 1500 - 1650. Ref: W…
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-8C9C7A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle of Post-Medieval date, c. AD 1720 - 1790. The buckle is a sub-rectangular knee buckle with a drilled frame to house a separate spindle. An articulated tube is fitted around the spindle with one remaining projecting spiked tongue, a scar representing a second spiked tongue is also present. The metal has a shiny brassy patina and is worn. The buckle is 28.3mm long, 21.6mm wide, 2.3mm thick and weighs 3.1g. A similar example is illustrated in Whitehead p.111, no.712 and is dated to circa AD 1720 - 1790. Ref: Whitehead, R. (1996). Buckles …
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-7C5A4A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1660 - 1720. The object is a sub-rectangular shoe or knee buckle with a drilled frame for a separate spindle. The frame has moulded roundels flanked by concave bifid sides. Moulded concave sub-triangular designs are present to either end of the frame from which ridges rectangular knops extend. The corroded spindle remains but the pin is now lost. The metal has a dark green/brown patina and is in good condition. The buckle is 23.8mm long, 15.9mm wide, 3.5mm thick and weighs 3.5g. A similar example is illustrated in…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-E33EA5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy T shaped Medieval buckle, dating from AD 1250 - 1450, perhaps from a dog lead or leash or similar. It has a D shaped frame and an integral plate which is keyhole shaped. There is a small triangular projection on the apex of the outer edge of the frame; this is flanked by transverse ridges. The bar is straight, and the pin is extant, but folded back into the keyhole shaped aperture in the plate. The pin is copper alloy and has a different patina to the frame, being greener. The plate starts at 12.8mm wide by the frame, then steps narrower to 9.4mm. A projecting ridg…
Created on: Monday 9th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-66FD4A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy single loop oval buckle frame with short bar and missing pin. The outside edge swells slightly towards the centre. Irregularly or perhaps crudely made. Length 12 mm, width 9 mm, thickness 2 mm, weight 0.87g. Probably medieval, AD 1100-1400.
Created on: Thursday 5th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GF003B', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-B07EF7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval buckle frame, c. 400-700. Cast copper alloy, oval with a flat underside, rounded outer edge and angled inner edge, Marzinzik 2003, 23, Class 1.5. The survival of casting flash on this inner edge suggests that this buckle is unfinished. The buckle bar has a 1.8mm diameter, round section. Width 15.1mm, Length 11.5mm, Thickness 2.4mm, Mass 1.12g.
Created on: Friday 28th July 2017
Last updated: Friday 28th July 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-112079
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a probable medieval copper alloy spur buckle dating from c. AD 1250-1400. One end is broken, with a knop or expanded area at the break, then a narrow tapering area before a large terminal. The terminal is a fleur-de-lis shape with two decorative openwork circular holes in the leaves of the lis, and a large, more triangular or lozengiform central element, bordered at the base with oblique ridges. In the very centre of the lis is a circular rivet hole containing a separate copper-alloy rivet with flattened circular head. The rear of the object is flat and undecorated. Th…
Created on: Monday 26th June 2017
Last updated: Thursday 14th June 2018
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Record ID: FAKL-9C4A84
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy, asymmetric, buckle frame, dating from AD1550-1700. The frame is sub-rectangular, with one square loop and the other semi-circular, separated by an integral bar. The underside of the frame is flat and the inner and outer edges of the upper side are bevelled On the bar are the remains of what appears to have been an iron pin, now missing. Similar buckles are shown by Whitehead, 2003, 90-91, where a date of c. 1550-1700 a date that seems to fit with other evidence. Length 33.6mm, Width 25.0mm, Thickness 2.3mm, Masss 4.85g.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
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Record ID: FAKL-9BFD33
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval buckle and plate, c. 1270-1350, oval frame with and off-set bar, its outer edge in the form of a flat, angled plate with a central notch for the pin, which is now missing. The sides of the frame have a diamond shaped section. The plate is made from 1.5mm thick sheet metal, folded around the bar with a central notch for the pin. The plate is 35.6mm long and 19.9mm wide, its lower part being narrower and cut away, in its centre is a single large rivet, invisible on the upper part of the plate. Clamped between the two leaves of the plate is a double layer of a woven textile, res…
Created on: Monday 15th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A3B798
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle plate of medieval date. The plate is trapezoidal, with a narrower attachment end and a wider hinged end. It is made from a single piece of copper-alloy sheet bent to form the trapezoidal upper plate and a narrower, rectangular lower plate, with frame recesses and a pin slot cut. The two plates each have two rivet holes, with the remains of a rivet in one (the left-hand hole when the plate is held with the pin slot upwards). The front of the plate is gilded, with two parallel rows of triangular punchmarks around the four sides, following the attachment…
Created on: Friday 21st April 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th May 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9FA4C6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy double looped buckle, both loops identical, dating to the 15th to mid 17th century, c.1400 to c. 1650. The pin is missing. The loops are D-shaped in cross-section; the front of the buckle is convex, and the back of the buckle is flat and unfinished-looking. Dark green patina with some traces of iron corrosion on the central bar on both front and reverse. It is 21.94mm in height, 25.49mm in width, and weighs 3.1g. See Whitehead 2003, 53, No. 291-300 for comparable examples. This type of plain 'spectacle' buckle is very common.
Created on: Friday 21st April 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th May 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9D3324
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle with gilded integral plate.The frame is circular internally and rather irregular and battered externally, perhaps with its outer edge externally worn. The plate tapers to a narrow projection which is probably a distorted hook. It has two separate copper-alloy knob-headed rivets and a pin hole in which a copper-alloy pin survives. The plate is decorated with a short rectangular panel of zig-zag rocker-arm engraving, through which one of the rivet holes passes. Beyond this, towards the hook, there is a panel with narrowly bevelled edges, then a slightly wider termina…
Created on: Friday 21st April 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th May 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6F851A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy buckle plate, a single rectangular straight-sided sheet of metal with a pin slot and frame recesses cut. The two hinge loops thus formed are broken through and have been bent under the rest of the sheet, so any underplate is missing. The surviving part has two rivet holes, one in either corner of the attachment end (the opposite end to the pin slot), blocked with what may be iron corrosion. There is a third circular empty hole in the centre, and next to this is a hole caused by damage. There are traces of what may be a fourth deliberate hole close to one of the…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GF001B', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-2F16D1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy sub-rectangular single loop buckle frame with outcurved outer edge with central point separated by a V-shaped groove, concave top and bottom edges, narrowed bar and missing pin. Length 27 mm, width 23 mm, thickness 3 mm. Weight 5.72 g. Compare NLM-496633. Perhaps 17th or early 18th century, AD 1600-1750.
Created on: Friday 10th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 23rd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RP001B', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-07FE21
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small square copper-alloy buckle frame with rounded corners, 14 x 14mm. A separate iron bar in the centre of the frame has a copper-alloy tube corroded on to it, with two spikes forming a double pin. Whitehead illustrates similar examples (2003, nos. 733 and 734) which he identifies as boot buckles and dates to c. AD 1720-1790.
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GF001B', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-F233EA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy single loop trapezoidal buckle frame. All edges are chunky but corroded. The bar is narrower but not offset; the longer outside edge is angled inwards towards a central rounded moulding with a central slight groove for a pin rest. The reverse is flatter. Width 18mm, length 12 mm, thickness 2 mm, weight 1.32g. Trapezoidal buckles appear to start in the 14th century; this one, with a central moulding, has similarities to strap-slides with central mouldings and pairs of internal projections (e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 1260-1261). AD 1350-1500.
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'AG001B', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-F207CC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy single loop rectangular buckle frame. The outside edge is wide, flattish and angled; the sides taper towards a slightly narrowed bar, now bent outwards. There is a thickened lobe at either end of the bar. The buckle frame is 24mm wide, 14mm long and a maximum of 3mm thick; it weighs 1.82g. AD 1350-1500.
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'AG001B', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-F18C22
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy single loop buckle frame, oval with ornate outside edge and a short offset but not narrowed bar. The bar projects slightly at either end. Two pointed knops, one at either end of the outside edge, flank six unevenly spaced grooves, with the centre groove larger to form the pin rest. The pin is missing. Buckle frame flat on reverse. AD 1250-1350.
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'AG001B', grid reference and parish protected.