Record ID: FAKL-BC86A9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a Late Medieval lyre-shaped, copper alloy, buckle consisting of the rectangular socket, 15.0 x 5.2mm through which are two rivets. The face of the socket bears a black-letter inscription reading 'IHC'. Above the socket the section narrows and is marked by transverse moulding through one of which is hole which contains a 29.6mm long, pin, the shank of which has a tapering, round section with an expanded area where it is attached to the buckle. Most of the fame is missing but the surviving part bears a decorated projection. Length 56.3mm (including pin) Width 21.0mm, Mass 10.63g…
Created on: Monday 27th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th May 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-ABC669
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval, c AD1500-1700, cast copper alloy, double loop, rectangular buckle. The two loops are separated by an integral bar, on their two outer edges are lugs which bear a central notch for a pin. The frame has a trapezoid section, 3.2 x 2.7mm, Length 38.6mm, Width 24.2mm, Thickness 2.9mm, Mass 7.44g. Margeson dated a similar buckle to '1600-1700 (Norwich Households, 1993, Fig. 17, No. 177) but an example form Winchester was found in a pit dated to the 15th to 16th century (Rees et. al. Fig. 118, No. 1476).
Created on: Sunday 26th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th May 2019
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Record ID: SUR-68D673
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small silver buckle of early medieval date complete with silver pin and plate. The frame is oval with a circular cross section. The plate is formed from a sheet of silver which is wrapped around the strap bar and has a central rectangular cut-out for the pin and a pair of rivet holes towards the rear of the plate. Both rivets are missing.
Created on: Thursday 23rd May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 12th September 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-BF8D33
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval, c. 1200-1260, cast copper alloy buckle, oval with an off-set bar around which is a fragment of sheet copper alloy. The section of the frame is rectangular, 3.3 x 2.2mm with a keeled inner edge. On the buckle's outer edge are two flanking projections separated by a recessed band around which is a strip of sheet copper alloy marked by two, incised, circumferential, grooves. The pin is wrapped around the frame and has a grooved running down its length on both faces. The buckle is carefully shaped but its surface is covered in file marks left from manufacture. In London buckle o…
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 24th May 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-9740C1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval silver buckle dating from AD 1400 - 1450. The buckle is of unusual construction. It has an oval frame with a lipped pin rest. The plate is integral to the frame and is hollow. The silver pin has a closed attachment loop around a separate bar which is held within the hollow plate, securing the pin in position. The plate is rectangular and undecorated, with a slightly concave attachment end. There is a single circular rivet hole through both plates in the middle of the attachment end. The rivet is missing. Some damage has resulted in another small hole in one plate. The buckl…
Created on: Monday 13th May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Record ID: WAW-B34BC4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval (c. AD 1575-1770) two loop buckle, one of the two loops is D shaped with two small, flanking projections, the other is trapezoid, with a notched outer edge. There are two small projection at the ends of the bar separating the two loops. The frame has a trapezoid section, 3.0/1.8mm wide x 2.2mm thick. Whitehead (2003, 92) dates buckle of this form to c. AD 1575-1700, a dating supported an example from Colchester which was in a context of 1600-1675 (Crummy, 1988, 16, Fig. 19, No 1754). Length 24.2mm, Width 19.2mm, Thickness 2.2mm, Mass 2.49mm
Created on: Saturday 20th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
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Record ID: WAW-B294EB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval two loop buckle, c. AD1350-1450, two conjoined, oval, frames with a D shaped section, the inner edge of which is steeply angled. In London buckles of this form occur in contexts with the above dating (Egan and Pritchard, 1991, 82-84, Fig. 50). Length 29.0mm, Width 25.3mm, Thickness 3.3mm, Mass 5.27g
Created on: Saturday 20th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-59B28B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Roman copper alloy buckle, 27mm in length, 21mm wide and 4mm thick with a weight of 7.37g. The object is sub rectangular in form and cross section. It consists of a D shaped buckle frame which is decorated with two outwards facing horses heads. These are C shaped with curved necks, sub triangular heads and small rounded projections for ears. Below the ears are dot in circle stamped eyes. The mane is picked out with a double row of circular stamps running down the edge and a single row continues across the body, just above the ridge where the projection joins the frame. The fra…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E0E476
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete medieval copper alloy Limoges-style buckle plate dating to the period c. AD 1175 - 1225. Broken across the frame recess and with two rivet holes near the attachment end, one of which is worn through. The face is decorated with a fantastic beast rampant to sinister reserved on a field of blue enamel. The beast appears to have the head of a stag, the antlers pointing horizontally towards the back of the frame. It a long neck and four legs, each terminating in a three-toed foot. The front right leg is raised. The tail is short and pointed. The body retains two pointed oval fie…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 28th July 2020
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Record ID: FAKL-CB3B67
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval, cast copper alloy double loop buckle, c. AD 1270-1400. The frame is rectangular and the two loops separated by a plain bar, its section is triangular, with the more vertical edge on the inner side. A tapering, wrap-around type pin remains in place. Length 35.4mm, Width 22.9mm, Thickness 2.7mm, Mass 7.25g. In London buckles of this type were found in context dating from c. 1270-1400 (Egan and Pritchard, 1991, 97-99, Fig. 62). .
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-A1776C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval, copper alloy, double looped, buckle, c. 1530-1570. The buckle is rectangular with a plain central bar, it surface retains some traces of white-metal plating. Its two edges bear a line of incised, cabled decoration and notched to give a crenulated effect. A similar buckle from London was found in a context dated to c.1530-1570 (Egan 2005, 37, fig. 19, no. 118) and it was suggested that its large size suggested that it may have formed part of an armour, it may have also have been used on a baldric. Length 55.1mm, Width 56.0mm, Thickness 3.3mm, Mass 24.91g.
Created on: Sunday 7th April 2019
Last updated: Sunday 7th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-A13336
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval, copper alloy, double looped buckle, c. 1650-1720. The buckle is ornate and retains traces of white-metal coating. Between the two D-shaped loops is an off-set bar, the junctions being marked by mouldings. there are further mouldings around the frames, in the middle of each frame is a palmette moulding. The underside of the buckle is slightly hollow-cast and its two loops are slightly angles so that their edges stand above the line of the bar. The pin is wrapped around the bar at which point it has a grooved face. A similar buckle from London was found in a context dated…
Created on: Sunday 7th April 2019
Last updated: Sunday 7th April 2019
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Record ID: LIN-B6F0ED
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet belt buckle, dating to c.AD 575-700. This buckle parallels the form of Marzinzik Typegroup II.19b and is the only recorded buckle in this group with garnet and gold cloisonné setting. The sub-rectangular plate, which measures 15.79 mm in width, 23.15 mm in length and 3.93 in thickness and weighs 5.70g, comprises of a gold sheet underplate and backplate with a pair of looped hinges which would have attached the plate to the buckle frame. The buckle-end has a semi-circular cut-away top. The belt was fitted into the rectangular socket…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
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Record ID: WAW-932FB4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval, double loop buckle, c. 1550-1650, two conjoined, D shaped loops separated by a straight bar. The buckle frame has a flattened D shaped section. Width 32.4mm, Length 28.7mm, Thickness 2.2mm, Mass 3.33g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2019
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Record ID: WAW-91AC4B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Roman buckle, (c. 380-420) of diminutive size, copper alloy, D shaped and decorated with two confronted animals' heads, facing their jaws suggested by two, incised chevrons defining a lozenge-shaped panel. The animals' eyes are marked by two large, ringed-dots behind each of which is a series of transverse mouldings, the details of which are lost to corrosion. Further decoration extends down the sides of the buckle but, again, is impossible to resolve. The buckle bar is integral but is now broken. Length 23.0mm, Width 17.9mm, Thickness 1.8mm, Mass 1.59g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2019
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Record ID: SOM-5557AB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy T-shaped buckle of 13th- or 14th-century date complete with pin, but broken at the attachment end. The frame is rectangular with squared corners and edges and an open central rectangular projection at the centre of one of the long edges creating the vertical bar of the T. This projection extends into a short length of solid rectangular plate ending in a very thin ridge around the front and sides beyond which is an integral circular loop with a broken outer side. The reverse is flat throughout and the front of the main rectangular loop of the frame is also flat.…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
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Record ID: WAW-FCBC27
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy pin from a Medieval annular buckle. The pin has a rectangular section tapering towards its tip, the other end being curved around to form a loop. At top of the pin, near the loop, its upper surface is marked by two pairs of incised, transverse grooves flanking a small faceted zone. Length 53.0mm, Loop 14.8mm diameter, section 6.0 x 4.8mm maximum, Mass 8.04g. This pin can be compared to an example found with a buckle at Winchester and dated to the late 14th mid 15th century (Biddle et. al 1990, 524, Fig. 134, No. 1245).
Created on: Friday 22nd February 2019
Last updated: Friday 22nd February 2019
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Record ID: KENT-088691
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A silver double loop buckle frame of later 17th century date, c.1660-1720. Description: The frame is of oval double-lopped form with central bar the pin is missing. The reverse is slightly concave and the strap-bar is offset. The frame is slightly squashed. Measurements: 24.06mm long, 19.09mm wide, 3.05mm thick and 2.47g in weight. Discussion: This buckle fits a group of buckles with and without separate pins and executed in silver and tombac. These buckles dates to between 1680-1720 (Whitehead, 1998, 48). It is close in form to a shoe or knee buckle which usually have a separa…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 18th August 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8A0F5D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy medieval buckle. The buckle would have consisted of two round loops with an integral plate in between the loops, dated to late 13th to 14th century. Weight: 6.4gms Length: 35.3mm Width of loop 22.7mm Width of plate: 10mm Thickness of loop: 4.3mm Thickness of plate: 2.3mm
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2020
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Record ID: FAKL-8EFC6A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy double loop buckle, c. 1550-1550, only one half of which survives. The remaining loop is D shaped and curved in at the points where it joins the shared bar. It has a D shaped section which expands towards its outer edge where it is marked by a notch for the pin, this is flanked by two angled grooves. Length 23.3mm, Width 31.8mm, Thickness 2.8mm, Mass 3.29g.
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
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