Record ID: WILT-B62D64
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a probable Medieval buckle plate. The plate is broadly sub-pyramidal in form due to old breaks. It is decorated with incised triangles separated by two parallel vertical bands which have transverse incisions.
Created on: Friday 15th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 15th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-0481F2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Medieval single loop buckle. The buckle is D shaped in plan with a recessed strap bar. The pin is missing.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-0496D1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Post-medieval double loop buckle. The buckle has small projecting lobes at either end of the strap bar. There are slight nitches at either end of the D shaped loops to act as a pin rest, the pin is missing.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-0814B7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame of medieval to early post-medieval date. The frame is formed of two conjoined ovals such that the sides incurve. The frame is bevelled both internally and externally on the upper surface, the latter more shallowly; the lower surface is flat. The pin bar thus has a trapezoidal cross-section, it is bent upwards slightly. The pin is missing.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-E63AB1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval cast copper alloy single looped buckle frame. The strap bar and one end of the loop are lost to old breaks. The remaining end has an oval knop by the joint with the strap bar. The loop is widened and thickened towards the centre, oval in section with three, regularly spaced, oval expansions, a fourth is probably lost to the old break. These expansions may have been moulded decoration but details are lost to corrosion. The length is 45.8mm, the width 19.2mm, the width 4.2mm. It weighs 5.76 grams. This type of buckle frame is relatively common on Medieval sites (see,…
Created on: Wednesday 1st September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fletching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-220A36
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy single looped buckle frame with pin. The buckle is rectangular with rounded corners. It is highly corroded and any surface decoration has been lost. The loop of the iron pin has corroded in place at one end of the pin bar. A similar buckle can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996, 26; ref. 126) which he dates to c1300-1500 AD.
Created on: Thursday 16th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-A254C7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy double loop buckle with the remains of an iron plate attached. The loops are oval, with widened outer edges which are bevelled on the front and back. The strap bar is completely obscured by the iron plate which has traces of a pin slot on the back and seems to have been the strap plate. It is 29.6mm long, 24.1mm wide and 3.5mm thick; it weighs 8.25 grams. Whitehead (2003: 53) illustrates a similar buckle, no.293, which he dates to c,1350-1650 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Last updated: Saturday 25th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brightling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-474556
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops with slightly widened outer edges. The front and back are bevelled and the front is decorated with a raised rim around the inner side of the loops and raised foliate patterns (the pattern is discribed by Whitehead (see below) as vine scroll). There are traces of a black lacquer around the patten. The strap bar is narrowed and recessed. It is very bent and now 45.9mm long, 31.3mm wide, 2.8mm thick and weighs 6.34 grams. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle (page 68, No.423) whi…
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-477142
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops which are triangular in section with a flat back and steeply angled inner side and more bevelled outer side. The pin is missing. The buckle has a red brown surface with areas of green corrosion. The frame is 21.6mm long, 17.3mm wide and 2.2mm thick. It weighs 1.81 grams. Such a simple buckle is hard to date precisely, Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle (page 53, No.294) which he dates to c.1350-1650 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warningcamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-9C4178
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame with integral cast plate. Dimensions 35.35mm x 16.08mm x 3.74mm and weight 5gms. The loop of the buckle is oval, 19.6mm long by 14.9mm wide and 2.1mm thick with a lipped pin rest. Traces of an iron pin remain in the circular pin hole, the sides of which project into the buckle loop. The fixing plate is 13.3mm long by 11.7mm wide and takes the form of a wide collar topped by a fleur d'lis. There is an integral rivet on the rear, at the centre point of the lis. it is 4.2mm in diameter and 3.7mm long. Although no exact parallel was found this fi…
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Itford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-19ADA5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy single loop oval buckle frame with an ornate outer edge, dating from c. 1200-1400. The outer edge has two prominent, lobed knops flanking three transverse grooves moulded on the front, the back is plain and flat. It has a narrowed, offset strap bar and a dark green patina. The pin and plate are missing. It is 17.1mm long, 20.9mm wide, and 4.6mm thick. It weighs 2.75gm. Egan and Pritchard (1991) illustrate very similar buckles e.g. p.73, No 299. They suggest this type dates to 1200-1400 AD (p.76).
Created on: Friday 23rd April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 28th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Arundel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-48B7A2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double loop buckle with one large oval loop and one much smaller (shorter and narrower) rectangular loop which forms a seperate outer bar for the strap to be folded over. There is a rectangular recess in the centre of the pin bar (between the loops) to hold the pin, which is missing, and three transverse incised lines at the centre of the front of the large oval loop to act as a pin rest. It is 2.5mm long, 2.5mm wide and weighs c.4 grams. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle, p.87 no.539, which he dates c.1350-1450 AD. He comments "They are thought to have b…
Created on: Thursday 1st October 2009
Last updated: Saturday 18th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forest Row', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-61FE15
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A trapezidal cast copper-alloy buckle frame of medieval date. The external edge has a U-shaped groove running along the length on the outer side in the thickness of the frame. The groove is decorated with 4 rows of triangles running down the length. The upper surface of the outer edge features a central transverse pin rest. Either side of this, the upper surface is decorated with punched annulets. The strap bar is narrowed with a slight raised rib around the sides of frame opposite each end. The metal is a deep grey-green in colour with little corrosion. The buckle measures 18.1mm long…
Created on: Friday 2nd October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarring Neville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-BDB5A3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy annular disc-on-pin buckle, with a pin constriction. The buckle has a diameter measurement of 25.8mm and it is 4mm thick. There is a pin in situ and intact, through the constriction. The pin has a large oval disc in the centre of its length. The plate has a serrated milled edge, with a raised oval on the centre. The pin then extends over the other side of the buckle frame; it is 27.9mm in length. Two notches have been drilled into the frame at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions, visible on the reverse, predumably to hold a central strap bar. This buckle is medieval i…
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2005
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-796AF4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy medieval single-loop rectangular framed buckle with integral plate. The buckle measures 31.3mm by 21.3mm, is 2.6mm thick and weighs 5.9grams. It is tinned on the front surface and this has suffered less from corrosion. The loop is rectangular, 21.3mm long and 12.4mm wide, it has a notched lip forming a pin rest which is 5.4mm long. The integral plate is broken by an old break with the remaining piece being 16.7mm long and 16.2mm wide. It is constricted after the loop to 14.1 mm wide, then curves outwards in a semi circular lug on both sides to 16.2mm wide, is cons…
Created on: Friday 11th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yapton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-FC6B57
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy post medieval double loop buckle frame. 28.3mm long, 27.1mm wide, 2.5mm thick and 3.4 grams in weight. One loop has gone almost completely from old breaks. The other is D shaped in profile with an expanded outer edge and a central pair of projecting lips forming a pin rest. The centre bar is recessed and narrowed, there are projecting knobs at both ends, outlined by grooves across the frame. Similar to Whitehead (2003) page 61, no 306 hence a date of c.1550-1650 is suggested.
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-FCA426
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy medieval or post medieval double loop buckle frame. 23.7mm long, 23.9mm wide, 1.7mm thick and 1.6 grams in weight. About 70% of loop has gone from old breaks. The other is D shaped in profile with an expanded outer edge. The centre bar is 12.5mm long and 1.8mm wide. This buckle is of a very simple design making dating difficult; a date of 1350-1720 is suggested based on Whitehead (2003) page 52.
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-FCC538
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy post medieval rectangular shoe buckle with seperate spindle. 17.5mm long, 13.1mm wide, 3.5mm thick and 2.2 grams in weight. The frame is rectangular and slightly curved upwards, with outer sides that expand inwards slightly, these widened areas have no visible pin rests but the triangular pin is still cemented to one of them. The sides are also widened inwards and thickened at the centre to hold the spindle. The iron spindle is still in place, although rusted. The pin is complete, trianguler, 8.8mm long and 2.8mm wide at the base. The chape is incomplete; it is attach…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-0B47F4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late early-medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame (c. 10th century). Approximately 2/3 of the frame survives, with three remaining protruding conical zoomorphic heads as decoration and a pronounced sub-triangular pin rest with central groove. The zoomorphic heads seem to consist of an elongated snout with two simple eye holes. The two heads that comprise an outer edge of the buckle frame flank the pin rest, with a simple frame in between the elements. However, the third head is connected to one of the outer decorative heads by means of a thicker bevelled frame segment w…
Created on: Saturday 24th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Amberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-9D1F56
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy buckle with an enamelled heraldic panel on the plate. The pin is missing. The length of the frame is 25.74mm and the plate measures 18.36mm x 35.38mm. The frame is oval with a narrow offset bar and the outer edge is sloping and has a pin seating groove. The plate is rectangular and has a single rounded rivet. The heraldry may be that of the Russell family (Argent, a chevron between three cross-crosslets sable within a bordure engrailed gules) but this is not clear. The same form of buckle, but with different heraldry, was found in Lincoln (Cherry …
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SOM-3FAE54
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops with flat backs and bevelled outer and inner edges. Both loops have three transverse grooves in the centre of the outer side, a straight groove flanked by diagonal grooves in a chevron. The strap bar is narrowed; the pin is missing. The frame is 36.3mm long, 33.4mm wide and 2.9mm thick. It weighs 6.22 grams. A similar example is illustrated in Margerson (1993:30, no.171) from a 17th century context although it is likely similar simple forms were in use by c.1350 (Egan and Prit…
Created on: Sunday 6th March 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Petherton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2C0625
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy double-looped oval buckle with an iron pin and separate strap-plate. The loops form one continuous oval outer frame and the outer sides of the loops are slightly widened. The outer edge is rounded and the inner edge and back flat and plain. The integral strap bar is plain. The iron pin is highly corroded but remains in situ. The strap plate is formed of a thin rectangular strip of copper alloy sheet bent in half around the central bar. It has a rectangular slot at the fold for the pin and both sides are borken with irregular breaks. It is 19mm long, 21.1mm i…
Created on: Monday 7th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1E4DA7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy double looped buckle. The frame is broadly rectangular in plan with the outer edges widening in width to pointed projections, forming triangular ends. The strap bar has a lobed knop at either end. Remains of iron corrosion on the strap suggests the pin, now missing, could have been made of iron. It measures 47.3mm in length, 23.7mm in width, 2.1mm in thickness and weighs 3.7g. Whitehead (2003; 82) illustrates a similar example with a wider frame, no. 512, which is dated 1250-1700 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Pennard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CAA8E2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast, copper alloy double-looped buckle. The pin survives in part and is a copper alloy strip bent around the strap bar, broken towards the tip which is now lost. The loops of the frame are sub oval and the strap bar is recessed. It measures 35.8mm in length, 25.9mm in width and 3.4mm in thickness. It weighs 6.7g. Whitehead (2003; 305), number 305, is a similar example, dated 1500-1650 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Pennard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CAD002
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval cast, copper alloy trapezoidal buckle. The frame widens from the strap bar forming a trapezoidal shape. There are rounded knops on the corners and the middle of the outer edge widens into a The buckle is broken to one side of the strap bar so that only one of the original two loops survives. The outer edge has rounded knops with a rounded triangular projection between. The strap bar has a lobed knop at either end. It measures 24.4mm in length, 21.1mm in width and 2.1mm in thickness. Whitehead (2003; 84), number 523, is a similar, more complete example, dat…
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Pennard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CB5157
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast, copper alloy oval buckle with surviving chape and pin. The frame is drilled and the strap bar is separate, although survives in situ on this example. The buckle frame has moulded decoration; raised vertical lines crossed with diagonal lines either end of the strap bar with scroll work to the sides. The chape is 'D-shaped' with the centre of the curve projecting into an elongated knop which has a raised stud at the end. It is a Whitehead (2003; 96) type I. The reverse of the chape has 'IOHN BRADNOCK' stamped. The pin is triangular in shape. The buckle measures 47.7m…
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Pennard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CBD762
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast, copper ally double-looped buckle. The frame is a pointed oval in plan with open work detail. The frame widens on the outer edge to form the pointed oval. Within the centre of the widest point of the frame is an openwork lozenge. The strap bar is recessed and there is a probable openwork drop shape at either end although it is difficult to tell due to the amount of dirt remaining on this example. The frame is indented to either side of the strap bar at both the top and bottom. The pin is missing. It measures 42.7mm in length, 25.7mm in width, 2.3mm in thickness and …
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 7th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Pennard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D703F5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle with integral plate. The frame is rectangular with a rounded collar on one side from which the integral plate projects. The plate is rectangular in plan and widens slightly in the centre. There is a circular hole in the centre of the collar where it meets the frame. This is likely to have been for a rivet. The pin is missing. It measures 32.9mm in length, 12.6mm in width, 5.2mm in thickness and weighs 3.11g. Whitehead (2003; 34) illustrates a similar example with a more rounded frame in number 193.
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Pennard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-44EB21
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame complete with pin. The frame is braodly D-shaped with an offset, narrowed and recessed strap bar. The upper, lower and outer sides are convex curved giving the frame an almost trefoil shape with lobed knops projecting outwards from the junctions between the outer side and upper and lower sides. All three sides have a flat back and a front which thins towards the centre making them triangular in cross section. The pin is D-shaped in cross section with a flat back, one end is bent around the strap bar and is evan in width to the …
Created on: Monday 2nd March 2015
Last updated: Sunday 23rd October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-320408
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval cast copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops which are D-shaped in section with flat backs and slightly widened outer edges. The strap bar is narrowed. The pin is missing but there are traces of iron corrosion on the strap bar and one loop. The frame is 23.0mm long, 18.8mm wide and 2.5mm thick, it weighs 1.74 grams. A similar example is illustrated in Margeson (1993:30, no.164) from a 17th century context , although with an incised line for a pin rest in the centre of each loop, it is likely similar simple forms were in use …
Created on: Wednesday 13th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B8A43D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy single looped buckle, complete with pin. It consists of a 'D'-shaped frame with a narrowed and recessed strap bar. The frame is oval in section. At the centre of the outer side of the loop projects to a knob, the knop is thicker than the rest of the frame and has a slight groove down the centre for a pin rest. The pin survives bent around the strap bar and is a brighter green than the frame, suggesting a different alloy. The pin is rectangular section, and tapers in width towards the end, a grove down the front suggests it was made of sheet with the edges …
Created on: Monday 13th April 2015
Last updated: Sunday 23rd October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B978E4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame complete with pin. The frame is oval with an offset, narrowed and recessed strap bar. The loop has a flat back and rounded front, the outer side is slightly widened and thickened. At the centre of the outer side the frame is moulded into two circular knops, these are flanked by narrow collars with a groove between them creating a pin rest. The pin is rectangular in cross section with a slightly groove down the front, one end is bent around the strap bar and it is broadly even in width to the rounded point. The pin has a brighter gree…
Created on: Monday 13th April 2015
Last updated: Sunday 23rd October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8F6E99
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy post-medieval double-looped buckle frame, missing most of one of its loops as well as its pin. The strao bar extends beyond the meeting point of the loops ending in rounded lobes. The reverse surface ia flat, and the upper surface is convex. At the centre of the remaining loop is a lobes expansion with the front moulded into crude flower. The broken off loop is a short stub along one edge (6mm), and broken at the moulding along the other. The breaks are old and the frame is bent slightly. The remaining section is 28.4mm long, 28.9mm wide and 2.7mm thick…
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2015
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stawell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-328D9B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame. The long frame is trapezoidal, with the outer side slightly longer than the strap bar, and it has a convex front and a flatter back. There are incised diagonal transverse lines across the three longer sides, all now worn to an almost smooth surface. The narrow, undecorated, end is slightly thinned to make a strap bar. It is 30.4mm long, 25.2 mm wide along the longer side, 23.0mm along the strap bar and 3.3mm thick, it weighs 4.23 grams. Whitehead (2003:30) illustrates an undecorated buckle of similar shape (no.169) and a buckle with simi…
Created on: Wednesday 13th May 2015
Last updated: Saturday 22nd October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AA45B0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame. Around a half of one of the buckle's loops has been broken away following old damage, with the outer edge gone completely and the sides surviving to differing extents above and below. The pin is also missing. The remaining oval loop is curved in cross-section due to a central recess between the sides of the buckle on the back. This is presumably a result of casting in an open, one-piece mould, whereby the metal has cooled and contracted. At the centre of the outer edge of the complete loop is an angled lobed kn…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 30th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AE3671
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy single loop oval buckle frame with an ornate outer edge and pin. The outer edge widens into a sub-rectangular bar which is thinned and narrowed in the centre giving a V-shaped cross section and a slightly V-shaped outer edge. There is a raised transverse collar across the centre of this bar at this narrowest point. The strap bar is narrowed and offset and recessed from the front of the frame with slightly thickened knops at each end. The frame is pointed oval; in section, more convex on the outer side than the inner, apart from the outer edge. The back is fl…
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2014
Last updated: Saturday 22nd October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston C P', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7DEAF4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval copper alloy buckle with pin; dating to the period c.AD 1450-1550. The buckle frame is oval with an expanded flat outer edge. The outer edge widens in the centre to form a semi-circular projection flanked by slightly narrower lobed projections to give the whole outer edge trefoil appearance. The frame itself if flat and undecorated on the back, but decorated on the front with a series of incised grooves of conjoined pellets. The grooves follow the contours of the outer side on the outer and inner edges and a pair run across the central projection creating a pin res…
Created on: Monday 19th December 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chiselborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-023C97
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame with rectangular loops. The loops are rectangular in cross section. It has flat, trefoil projections at the corners and bilobed knops in the centre of the outer edges of the loops and at the ends of the strap bars. The knops in the cnetre of the loops have an incised transverse line across the front to act as a pin rest. One corner is now bent up 45 degrees in profile. The pin is missing. It is 34.8mm long, 30.0mm wide and 1.9mm thick; it weighs 4.89 grams. Whitehead (2003: 79) illustrates a very similar frame, no.488, which …
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Wells', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-431B66
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete Roman copper alloy military buckle dating to AD 100 to 250. The buckle consists of singular loop with semi-scrolling ands and a small integral plate with a slot for the pin. The pin is missing. The frame is D-shape and measure 25.1 mm width at the point of maximum expansion. It is sub-rectangular in section, with a convex outer side and a flat inner side and reverse. The ends of the frame adjacent to the plate are curled inwards ending in semi-scrolls either side of the missing pin. Adjacent to the frame the plate is formed of a short sub-rectangular neck that…
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2018
Last updated: Monday 6th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lopen CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AC0CFC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The front part of a copper alloy Medieval buckle plate dating from cAD1200 - 1500. The plate is rectangular in shape with two rivet holes at one end and part of the bent tabs which would have gone over the strap bar at the other. The tabs have a round based pin slot between them and cut out corners. The item has a green patina on both sides but the front also has traces of a decayed coating, probably white metal. It measures 26.84mm in length, 13.20mm in width and weighs 1.45g. Due to the simplicity it is hard to give a precise date but the size, use of separate rivets and white me…
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 6th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buttermere', grid reference and parish protected.