Record ID: YORYM-206169
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1350 -1450. Meols Type 4. Buckle and plate present. The buckle has a D-shaped loop, of square section, with a triangular knop at the apex. It narrows at the edge of the arms where it joins the strap bar. The bar is circular in section. The plate is formed of a single sheet folded over the bar; each side of which is broadly rectangular in shape; the front side is larger than the back. The plate has two folds, between which rest the pin. The pin is sub-circular in section and fitted around the bar with an open loop. A…
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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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: YORYM-55A828
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate of early-medieval date. The plate is sub-rectangular with slightly incurved sides, and two straight ends, one with hinge loops for attachment to the buckle frame. The attachment end is split to take the strap, but the underplate has broken away (worn break). The plate has five circular holes. Two at the attachment end retain iron rivets; one centrally nearby, and two near the hinge loops, are empty and may have always been merely decorative. The upper surface of the plate is decorated with a central sub-rectangular or trapezoidal panel of …
Created on: Monday 6th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2017
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Record ID: YORYM-B514B6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy buckle frame of medieval date. It has a single D-shaped or oval loop with narrowed and offset bar. The outside edge is thick with a lozenge section and is shallowly incised with the letters AMOR (Love) within which traces of gilding can be seen. The A has a downward-angled bar. The metal has a dark greenish-brown patina and survives in good condition. The buckle is 24.2mm long, 16.8mm wide, 5.5mm thick and weighs 3.7g. A similar inscribed example (with the letters R and RI) has been recorded on the PAS database at NMS-CDA8A6, and dated to the 13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2016
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2017
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Record ID: YORYM-E414AF
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2016 T16. A complete silver buckle of post-medieval date. The object is a shoe buckle consisting of a sub-rectangular silver frame with rounded corners and swellings to the interior edges of either loop. The frame also swells at the centre from which an integral spindle extends. A separate copper alloy sub-ovate chape remains looped around the spindle, though one of the two loops by which it is secured is now broken. The remains of an iron rivet remain to the attachment end of the chape. Dimensions: Length: 29.6mm; Width: 17.4mm; Thickness: 3.1mm; Weight: 3.2g. Disc…
Created on: Thursday 7th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-D345AA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval buckle made of dark grey-green copper alloy. It could be seen as a double-loop buckle, with one oval and one keyhole-shaped loop, or as a single-loop oval frame with a small integral plate pierced with a keyhole-shaped hole. The copper-alloy pin survives between the two. The oval frame is roughly oval in cross-section. The outside edge has a central point, grooved to form a pin rest; either side of this point is a ridge which runs across the top and down the outer face. The inside edge of the loop is made from thicker metal, appearing like a square block with a spur p…
Created on: Friday 26th June 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
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Record ID: YORYM-10EB06
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of copper-alloy buckle of medieval date. The object is the attachment end of a T-shaped buckle. The terminal is pentagonal with a large central perforation and a circumferential recess around the uppermost point. Beneath the terminal is a transverse moulded collar from which an integral shaft extends and splits into two narrower arms both of which terminate in worn breaks. These breaks occur at the point at which a bar for the pin would have been fitted. The pin and bar no longer remain. The metal has a dark blackish-brown patina and is worn. The buckle is 25.8mm long, 1…
Created on: Friday 17th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th November 2019
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Record ID: YORYM-1B3C39
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy annular brooch of medieval date. The brooch is circular and the frame is circular in cross-section, with a narrow constriction for the pin. The pin remains looped around the constriction with an open loop; it has a circular cross-section. Two further constrictions are present at opposing points on the frame. The object is undecorated. The metal has a mid greenish-brown patina and is worn. The object is 24.6mm in diameter, 3.4mm wide, 4.5mm thick and weighs 6.1g. Egan and Pritchard (p.64-65) state that "a constriction on a single frame to limit the movemen…
Created on: Friday 5th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2016
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Record ID: YORYM-6ECD57
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy ring buckle of Roman date. The buckle has a circular frame with circular cross section and an integral sub-rectangular terminal projecting to one side. The frame is decorated with closely spaced incised grooves in the form of spiralling rings which are split into five sections by four plain evenly spaced circumferential bands. The grooves do not continue onto the reverse of the frame. The point at which the terminal extends from the frame is marked by two projecting sub-square knops. The pin no longer remains. The metal has a dark brown patina and is worn. t…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd September 2014
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2015
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Record ID: YORYM-245698
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy buckle of early-medieval date. The buckle is D-shaped in plan and circular in section with a narrowed and recessed strap bar. The outer edge of the frame is wide and undecorated and the pin no longer remains. Where the frame meets the strap bar it terminates in zoomorphic knops which are most probably crude representations of animal heads confronting across the bar. Zoomorphic terminals are a common feature of buckles of this period and are intended to represent some sort of quadruped's head, such as a lion or leopard. The metal has a dark reddish-brown pati…
Created on: Wednesday 6th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2016
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Record ID: YORYM-D10457
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate of 9th-century date. It is made from a single thin sheet of copper alloy, which tapers from a wider to a narrower end. Both ends are incomplete. At the wider end there are two sub-rectangular projections with a rectilinear slot in between; this may be the remains of two hinge loops to attach the plate to a frame. At the other end are two incomplete circular rivet holes. Between the rivet holes is an engraved sub-triangular shape, two sides concave and the other convex, which may be related to the 'fan-shaped' motifs found on 9th-century strap-en…
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2017
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Record ID: YORYM-6F4EC4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy buckle of medieval date. The buckle is annular with a thick round-section undecorated frame and circular-sectioned pin looped around the frame with an open loop. The pin is also simple with no decoration. No constriction for the pin is present. Egan and Pritchard (1991, 64-65) state that a constriction "is generally an indication of a brooch rather than a buckle", suggesting this example is a buckle. The metal has a dark blackish-brown patina and is worn. The object is 40.1mm in diameter, 4.5mm thick and weighs 15.6g.
Created on: Wednesday 4th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 25th February 2016
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Record ID: YORYM-BA8B84
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and modified late Visigothic copper-alloy buckle plate of Earl-Medieval date (circa AD 600/40 - 710/20). The buckle plate is of the 'lyre-shaped' type, though the rounded terminal is all that remains, with three integral knops set radially around the surviving edge. The rim of the plate is slightly raised, with an internal circumferential groove serving as the border for the central decorative motif. This motif features Style II ornamentation, consisting of a lozenge-shaped arrangement of double mouldings with curved ends extending towards the rim. The resulting fields a…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
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Record ID: YORYM-D243D0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy buckle of late Roman date. The zoomorphic buckle is of Hawkes and Dunning type IIA being symmetrical in design. Roughly one third of the buckle remains consisting of a curved frame with ovate section and both ends terminate in worn breaks though a slight projection remains at the strap bar end. On the outer edge of the frame is an integrally cast projection in the form of a perching bird though the finer detail has been lost due to wear. The remaining fragment of the brooch appears otherwise undecorated. The metal has a light brownish-green patina and…
Created on: Friday 9th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
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Record ID: YORYM-246E77
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete rectangular copper alloy plate, perhaps a buckle plate, of medieval date. The plate is formed from a single long rectangular sheet of metal, folded transversely across the centre; front and back plates are joined by five chunky rivets projecting from one side, around which traces of gilding remain. The plate appears otherwise undecorated. There are no frame recesses or pin hole or slot. The metal has a mid blackish-brown patina and is worn. The plate is 41.4mm long, 17.6mm wide, 6mm thick and weighs 13.7g. The absence of frame recesses or pin hole or slot appears at firs…
Created on: Wednesday 8th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd March 2016
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Record ID: YORYM-E2BF55
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete D-shaped copper-alloy buckle frame of medieval date, with the partial remains of a narrowed strap bar. The outer edge of the frame is wide and angled and it tapers at either end, terminating in knops from which the worn remains of the strap bar project. The pin no longer remains. The object is now worn and corroded. The metal is a mid brownish-green colour. The buckle is 26.4mm long, 16.7mm wide, 1.9mm thick and weighs 2.4g. Angled buckle frames similar to this one are known from 13th-century contexts, where they can bear Limoges-style enamelled decoration. Compare NM…
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Duffield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-79F257
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate of medieval date. The plate is flat and rectangular with two projections extending from one end which would have fitted over the strap bar to hold the plate in place. Between is a pin slot with a rounded end. Both sides of the plate are undecorated. One full rivet hole is present placed centrally close to the hinge loops, and half of a second rivet hole can be seen at the broken attachment end. The metal is a brassy light yellowish-brown colour and is worn. The plate is 25.3mm long, 9.8mm wide, 0.3mm thick and weighs 0.3g. A similar example c…
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Catterick Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-E442C1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle frame and plate of medieval date. The buckle plate is made from a single undecorated rectangular sheet of metal which has been folded over the bar of the frame. Two rivet holes are present at the open end of the plate, though one is infilled with corroded material. On the underplate the rivet holes are no longer present as the end of the plate has broken off. The bar of the frame is still present, held in place by the fold of the plate, but much of the rest of the oval frame is missing. The bar is slightly offset and the plate has frame recesses in…
Created on: Thursday 27th May 2010
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carnaby', grid reference and parish protected.