Record ID: NARC-9D96B1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy Ring Buckle of Roman date date (AD 200-300).  The object is complete with frame and pin, the hoop is unfaceted, while the pin has an expanded upper recurved portion with repeating incised longitudinal lines around the recurved portion. The frame has bevelled inner and outer edges with repeating punched annulets, regularly spaced, around the frame. The underside of the frame is flat and undecorated. At the lower end of the frame are a pair of integrally cast, square collars with a single central punched annulet with small, punched pellets in each quarte…
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 4th August 2023
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Record ID: NARC-9D825A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy buckle of late Roman to early Early-Medieval date (AD 350-450). Hawkes and Dunning Type IIA. The fragment is in form of a dolphin with open jaws and part of a lozenge in the mouth, from the apex of the head of the animal is a projecting ridge with incised vertical line and a pinched pellet eye. The object is curved and terminates in an old, abraded, transverse break resulting in the loss of the majority of the frame.  The back of the object is flat and undecorated. Length: 13.39mm, Width: 16.60mm, Thickness: 3.72mm, Weight: 2.4g The metal is light g…
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Last updated: Saturday 8th July 2023
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Record ID: NARC-6AB5A8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy Zoomorphic Buckle of Roman date (AD 350-450). Hawkes and Dunning Type IIA. The buckle is composed of a D-shaped frame, with moulded and incised symmetrical zoomorphic decoration. The outer edge of the buckle retains two outward facing horse heads with punched decoration. The outer edge has one pair of moulded transverse lines, while the strap bar is narrowed and offset and retains two downward projecting loops which flank the narrowed strap bar, which itself retains the looped portion of a wire pin. The outer edge of the frame, between the zoomorphic aspect…
Created on: Friday 31st March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2023
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Record ID: NARC-B28776
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy Zoomorphic Buckle of Roman date (AD 350-450). Hawkes and Dunning type 1B. The buckle is composed of a D-shaped frame, with moulded and incised symmetrical zoomorphic decoration. The outer edge of the buckle retains two outward facing horse heads with punched decoration. the outer edge has three pairs of moulded transverse lines, while the strap bar is narrowed and offset. The decoration comprises a single punched ring and dot motif, on the zoomorphic projections indicating an eye, with a single transverse line below, indicating a mouth. Below each projection is …
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
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Record ID: NARC-F34B5B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy buckle of Late Medieval to Post-Medieval date (AD 1500-1650). The object is a spectacle buckle is of a double loop oval form with bevelled edges and a narrowed strap bar with a knop at each end. The wire pin is retained and is tapered and affixed by being recurved around the strap bar. The metal is a mid-brown in colour with slightly pitted patina. Length: 27.20mm, Width: 16.10mm, Thickness: 2.36mm, Weight: 2.5g Whitehead, P 54, No 309.
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th July 2020
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Record ID: BH-7FA941
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy buckle dating to the twelfth to fourteenth centuries AD. The buckle possesses an oval frame with an offset, narrowed bar. The pin, which comprises a tapering piece of rectangular-section copper-alloy is wrapped around the bar. The buckle measures 19mm in length, 22mm in width and weighs 2.08g. Similar examples are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1997, 68-70).
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2016
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2016
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Record ID: BH-7F8CDE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy buckle dating to the twelfth to fourteenth centuries AD. The buckle possesses an oval frame with composite sheet plates. The pin is missing. The sheet plate, which is pierced by a single copper-alloy rivet, is loose revealing the forked spacer. The buckle measures 42mm in length, 24mm in width at the frame and a maximum of 14mm in width at the plate. It weighs 6.02g. Similar examples are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1997, 78-80).
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2016
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Record ID: WMID-9CC53C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy double looped trapezoidal buckle of Post Medieval dating (AD 1620 -AD 1680). The buckle frame is sub rectangular / trapezoidal in plan, and rectangular in profile. The buckle has trefoil shaped ends and a loped protrusion at either end of the narrowed strap bar. The pin is intact which is made from a rectangular piece of copper alloy that has been folded around the central bar. This is pointed at the outer edge. The pin moves freely on the central bar. The front face of the buckle has been decorated with an incised transverse line spanning the width of …
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2016
Last updated: Saturday 12th May 2018
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Record ID: WMID-8939F9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy buckle, of Medieval dating (c. AD 1350 to c. AD 1400). The buckle consists of buckle frame, pin and plate. The buckle frame is D shaped, with an ornate outside edge. A double pin rest is present in the centre, with a flanking knop to either side. A horizontal bar is present next to the strap bar. The strap bar is narrowed and recessed. The reverse of the frame is flat and undecorated. The pin has been made from a triangular strip of sheet copper alloy metal. The wide end has been wrapped around the strap bar, positioned in the gap in the buckle plate. …
Created on: Monday 10th August 2015
Last updated: Saturday 12th May 2018
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Record ID: BUC-C5FFF1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle (c. 16th century), incomplete only in so far as it is missing its pin. The frame is formed of two oval loops with a central narrowed bar. The frame is 'D' shaped in cross-section with a flat back and front that is bevelled externally; the bar is more triangular in cross-section. There are projecting knops with rounded ends at the outer corners of the frame on both loops and blunt pointed knops at the top and bottom of the bar. The frame has a fairly even mid- to dark-green patina. It has been bent slightly in profile. Length: …
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grafton Regis', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-8EFD62
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A robustly made copper alloy Roman buckle of 1st century AD date. The frame of the buckle is D shaped but with the strap bar that passed through the two perforated lugs, to complete the D, missing. Below each of these lugs the frame curves into two opposing bulbous terminals. The outer side of the frame is rectangular but on the inside is angled slightly. The surface of the object is pitted and the rear face is flat and undecorated. This style of buckle is considered to have been used on military sword belts (Bishop and Coulson 2006 p108, Fig 62)
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hinton in the Hedges', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-B37196
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper-alloy buckle pin, 26mm long, 23mm wide and 3mm deep. The object consists of a sub-rectangular sectioned bar which has two curved arms protruding from the centre, one from each side . Where the four arms meet there is a recessed circle with two concentric raised circles inside; this could alternatively be described as a ring-and-dot motif with two grooved concentric circles around a central dot. The other two arms are straight when seen from above. One thickens markedly and is decorated with a a single incised transverse line near the (broken) edge. The other…
Created on: Friday 15th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th September 2017
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Record ID: BUC-D69471
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy buckle frame and plate. The cast frame is oval, with an offset bar. There is a grooved pin rest in the centre of the pointed outside edge, flanked by a double moulding parallel to the groove; the mouldings project slightly beyond the outside edge, to the front of the buckle. It is bevelled more steeply externally than internally on the front; it is shallowly bevelled internally on the reverse. A thick sheet pin, now distorted, remains looped around the bar and retained by the plate. The frame is 21.72 mm wide, and 3.36 mm thick. The rectangular plate is in p…
Created on: Tuesday 18th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke Bruerne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-5701B6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Complete 13th century D-shaped Limoges buckle with enamelled plate. The buckle is 25mm long and 15mm wide. It is slightly concave at the reverse. There are some moulded ridges at the shoulder and moulded linear decoration at the front of the frame. The pin is made from copper alloy plate cut into a triangular shape and curled around the strap bar. The plate is square in plan with two rivet holes, 1.5mm in diameter, at the two lower corners. The plate isn21mm x 16mm. The plate is attached to the buckle by curling it around the strap bar, with a square hole cut out of the plate to accom…
Created on: Wednesday 13th April 2011
Last updated: Monday 5th September 2011
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Record ID: BUC-081765
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete medieval copper-alloy buckle of c. 13th-/to 14th-century date with all components remaining: frame, pin and plate. The frame is oval, with a narrowed and recessed offset bar. There is a grooved pin rest in the centre of the expanded, pointed outside edge, flanked towards the junction of the outer edge and the sides by a double moulding parallel to the groove; the mouldings project beyond the outside edge, to the front of the buckle. The frame is distorted laterally, as a result of old damage. The pin is formed of bent thick wire with a crease running up its reverse where…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Potterspury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-AD2DC4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame. The loops are of different shapes, one being trapezoidal and the other D-shaped. The outer edge of the D-shaped loop has an integrally cast sub-triangular projecting plate, with openwork decoration of two circular holes next to the loop and a lozenge-shaped hole at the apex. There is a small knop just above each of the lower corners of the plate; the apex has decoration of two oblique grooves and two tiny knops. The trapezoidal loop has a grooved pin rest and another decorative oblique groove at each corner. The strap bar is narrow …
Created on: Monday 24th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 23rd September 2010
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Record ID: BUC-6DA0E5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A single-loop copper-alloy buckle with a ring-and-dot pattern. The frame is D-shaped internally and more angular externally. There are three small round projections on the exterior at the pin rest. A single row of ring-and-dot motifs decorates one face of the buckle. The bar is inset and the pin is missing. This is a very simplified form of Ringerike-style decoration which dates the buckle to the 11th century. Compare BH-82CF20.
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke Bruerne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-CB49D6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy Early Roman buckle, approximately 50% present. Vertical loop on horizontal head bar. Suspension loop is 3mm in diameter. 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: Wednesday 7th October 2009
Last updated: Friday 30th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Northamptonshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-C6B367
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy buckle, 21mm long, 18mm wide and 4mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 1.69grams. The buckle consists of a rectangular sectioned frame which is D shaped. The straight edge contains the remains of an iron pin in its inside centre. The rounded end contains a central raised section which holds a spherical knop.
Created on: Wednesday 8th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: BUC-724272
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame of medieval date (13th-14th century), now distorted and missing its pin and separate sheet roller. It has a swollen outside edge, and a narrowed and recessed offset bar opposite (Meols type 11). The swollen part is roughly cylindrical, with a central constriction forming two knops. As noted, the separate sheet copper-alloy roller is absent at constriction. The sides are bevelled both internally and externally, the latter more shallowly. A similar example was found in a context of 1350-1400 in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991; no. 298)
Created on: Monday 4th August 2008
Last updated: Sunday 21st April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Potterspury', grid reference and parish protected.