Record ID: CAM-9F2311
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Roman buckle, approximately half survives. Weight 4.04g, length 30.6mm, incomplete width 14.8mm, maximum thickness of frame 3.7mm, thickness over the hinge loop (diameter of hinge loop) 6.5mm. This buckle had an oval or D-shaped frame, forming a penannular loop, of oval cross-section. The break is worn and covered with the same mid-green patina that is present over the rest of the artefact. This is with the exception of small area of light green patina that represents slight shallow damage to the surface, possibly during recent discovery. At the …
Created on: Saturday 25th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
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Record ID: CAM-00B220
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sub-rectangular buckle of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1660-1720. Only one corner survives, with part of the leading edge and part of one side arm of the frame. No evidence for a surface coating is present. The two side arms would have expanded, from a flattened 'D' shaped cross-section at the frame's corners, in width (maximum 4.6mm) and thickness (maximum 3.6mm) to accommodate a drilled frame for a, now missing, separate spindle. The frame has an oval cross-section over the drilled aperture. The drilled frame has a circular aperture of c.…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-FFBE96
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy single loop sub-rectangular buckle frame, pin missing, with forward projecting off-set bar. The dating of these are uncertain. Single loop rectangular buckles can date from c.AD1300 to at least AD1500, see Whitehead R. 2003, pp.26-27, nos.126-133. The recorder suspects that these buckles with forward projecting off-set bars are likely to be for use with horse harness, the dating possibly extending to at least the first half of 20th century AD?  This would give a wide date range of Medieval to the early Modern period. The thinking being that items use…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-C13B18
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The incomplete remains of a Medieval copper-alloy buckle. Only small portions of the frame, pin and buckle plate survive. The buckle plate is made from copper-alloy sheet metal of 0.6mm thickness. All edges of the plate are worn and some loss of extent due to breakage is probable. The plate has a maximum width of 11.7mm. It passes around the pin bar of the incomplete buckle frame recurving to form a double layer of plate with gap of c.0.5mm between the two layers. The length of both sides of the plate are incomplete with irregular worn breaks. Both having broken before the presence of…
Created on: Saturday 23rd July 2022
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
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Record ID: CAM-C10023
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval buckle frame, pin missing, dating to c.AD 1620-1680. This is a form of buckle described by Whitehead, R. as a double loop trapezoidal buckle with moulded decoration on the loops. See Whitehead, R. 2003, p.84. This buckle frame weighs 6.28g, has a length of 26.9mm, maximum width of 38.7mm and thickness of 2.5mm. The frame's cross-section is trapezoidal being slightly greater in measurement on the reverse surface than the front. The central integral pin-bar measures 2.4mm on the length axis. The narrower end of the frame has four lobes on the external edge. Thes…
Created on: Saturday 23rd July 2022
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
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Record ID: CAM-C01CCC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to early Post-Medieval copper-alloy annular buckle with pin surviving attached to the frame. The buckle frame and pin have a combined weight of 1.51g. The frame has an oval cross-section, flattened on the upper and lower surfaces. The width of the frame varies from 1.9mm to 2.9mm. This gives the frame a maximum external diameter of 16.1mm with internal measurement of 10.8mm. At 90 degrees to those measurements the frame's diameter measures 14.7mm externally and 10.4mm internally. The frame has a thickness ranging between 1.7mm to 2.1mm. The frame is completely…
Created on: Saturday 23rd July 2022
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
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Record ID: CAM-0844EB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Extract from: Report for H M Coroner "Circumstances of discovery: The object was found metal detected on a controlled developer-funded archaeological excavation of a multi-period site and came from the topsoil in Area E1. CHER event reference: ECB6227(also site code). Description: An incomplete late Saxon or early Medieval buckle (Ra 1078) with heart-shaped frame that has a notch at the outer point for a pin rest. It has the remains of an integrally cast plate. There is possibly a perforation in the plate for the now missing pin. It is made from a white metal pres…
Created on: Monday 21st June 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
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Record ID: CAM-A37E69
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small Medieval copper-alloy buckle. This buckle has a rectangular to trapezoidal shaped frame. The leading edge has a width of 13.2mm. The width increases to 14.0 across a very short knop that protrudes from the outer edges of the frame, 5.8mm back from the leading edge. The frame has a width of 13.0mm across the middle of the frame's aperture and then narrows to 10.9mm across the bar. The leading edge is expanded, and moulded on the upper surface, accounting for 5.7mm of the buckle frame's 15.8mm total length. The inner edge of the leading part of the frame is at c.90 deg…
Created on: Friday 4th June 2021
Last updated: Thursday 29th July 2021
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Record ID: CAM-0EED86
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval buckle frame dating to c. AD 1575-1700. This artefact weighs 1.37g, has a maximum length of 23.6mm, maximum width of 15.2mm and maximum thickness of 1.8mm. The frame is a double loop asymmetrical buckle with moulded decoration. The frame has a width across the central bar of 12.9mm. The upper surface of the frame has a subtle narrow decorative ridge. The original cross-section shape of the central bar is uncertain due to corrosion and slight surface damage but currently has a maximum width of c.1.5mm. To one side of the central bar the frame is trapezoidal, the arms of…
Created on: Tuesday 17th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
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Record ID: CAM-D7B3C0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Medieval buckle frame with copper-alloy buckle plate and remains of an incomplete iron pin. This artefact weighs 5.84g. The frame is a single oval loop with narrowed off-set bar and expanded leading edge. The frame has a length of 16.6mm and maximum width of 17.8mm. The arms of the frame have a sub-oval cross-section, the inner side being slightly flatter than the convexly curved front, reverse and outer sides. The arms have a thickness of 4.0mm and width of 1.5mm. The leading edge expands to a thickness of 4.7mm and width (on the length axis) of 4.1mm. The overall widt…
Created on: Sunday 26th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2020
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Record ID: CAM-096A0B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Medieval buckle with integral plate dating c. AD 1250-1400. This buckle weighs 5.68g. It has a length of 40.8mm, maximum width of 16.1mm and thickness of 2.8mm. The buckle frame is the widest part of this artefact and the thickness remains approximately the same along the entire length of the artefact. The frame end has a single 'D' shaped aperture measuring length 8.0mm x maximum width 8.3mm. The frame has a sub-rectangular cross-section with flat surfaces and slightly convexly curved sides. The outer edge of the frame has a vaguely sub-oval form but is shaped wit…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-CE0D65
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and very worn buckle plate probably of Medieval date. The sheet metal is rectangular in shape with an incomplete length of 41.5mm and width of 16.8mm. The sheet has a thickness of 5.48mm. Set diagonally in from one corner by 2.6mm there is a circular aperture of 2.6mm diameter. The adjacent corner along the width dimension has broken off. This break has occurred across a similar aperture only approximately half of which survives. These apertures would originally have been used as rivet holes to secure the buckle plate onto the strap. At the opposite end of the plate, fro…
Created on: Friday 20th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 17th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn and West Norfolk District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-BB0E40
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper-alloy buckle chape dating to c. AD 1660-1800. This would have been a stud chape from a two-piece buckle, however, the stud is now missing from the distal end of the chape. The chape weighs 3.03g and has a total length of 33.1mm. The proximal end is the widest part of the chape measuring 17.1mm over the bifid cylindrical hinge. The hinge cylinder has an external diameter of 3.2mm and internal diameter of 1.8mm. The bifid notch accounts for 5.0mm of the maximum width dimension and its depth accounts for 3.6mm of the chape's total length. A separate, now missing, s…
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-BAF324
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to early Post-Medieval buckle frame dating to c. AD 1350-1650. This copper-alloy buckle frame is a complete plain spectacle buckle, the pin now missing. It weighs 2.03g, has a width of 20.4mm and thickness of 1.8mm. The frame has a length of 20.7mm, however one half of the frame bends forwards at an angle of c.54 degrees. Use of a flexible dress-maker's tape-measure indicates that it has a bent length of c.23.0mm. The frame has a sub-'D' shaped cross-section, the reverse surface being flat and the upper surfaces being convexly curved. The frame loops have a minimum width of…
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-BADA96
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to early Post-Medieval buckle frame dating to c. AD 1350-1650. This copper-alloy buckle frame is either a complete single looped 'D' shaped buckle frame with projecting recurved spurs (c. AD 1300-1400) or an incomplete plain spectacle buckle, just less than half of which survives (c. AD 1350-1650). Whichever type of buckle this is, the pin is missing. This artefact weighs 1.93g, has a length of 15.9mm, width of 21.0mm and thickness of 2.0mm. The frame has a 'D' shaped cross-section, the reverse surface being flat. The complete 'D' shaped aperture in the frame has a wid…
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-BAC7E7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval buckle frame dating to c. AD 1250-1400. This is a copper-alloy single oval loop buckle frame with ornate leading edge and narrowed offset strap-bar. See Whitehead, R. 2003, p.21, no.78. It weighs 4.42g, has a length of 18.1mm, width of 23.1mm and maximum thickness of 5.6mm. The pin is missing. The arms of the frame have an oval cross-section measuring 2.0mm with a thickness of 2.3mm and 2.2mm with a thickness of 2.9mm. The frame's leading edge is formed of four oval spheres. These have a length axis of 6.4mm and thickness of 5.6mm. While they are almost equal in size, the o…
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 30th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-22A147
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Medieval buckle frame, probably dating from c. AD 1350-1450. The pin is missing. The frame weighs 10.76g, has a length of 31.7mm, width of 41.7mm and maximum thickness of 4.4mm. The frame is oval in shape with an off-set pin bar and rectangular to trapezoidal shaped notched lip pin rest. The internal width of the frame's aperture is 32.9mm and length is 19.6mm to the offset bar. The frame has an oval cross-section changing to sub-rectangular at the notched lip. The notched groove is aligned on the length axis, across from one edge to the other set at the approxi…
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
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Record ID: CAM-8F09AE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The remains of a Post-Medieval incomplete copper-alloy two-piece buckle frame. This buckle would have had an oval to circular shape and dates to the c. 18th century AD. Only about half of the frame survives, the rest along with the separate pin-bar and pin having been lost. This fragment of the original artefact weighs 8.71g. The frame has an incomplete length of 41.1mm and incomplete width of 40.1mm however the width axis arm of the frame has been pulled out of its original alignment. It is not certain whether this distortion occurred at the time of the object's break or post-depo…
Created on: Wednesday 11th September 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
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Record ID: CAM-8F0408
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The remains of a Post-Medieval incomplete copper-alloy two-piece buckle frame. This buckle frame would have had a sub-rectangular veering to oval shape, the internal and external corners being smoothly curved, and dates to the c. 18th century AD. Only half of the frame survives the rest, along with the separate pin-bar and pin, having been lost. This fragment of the original artefact weighs 9.93g. The frame has broken across the drilled holes that would originally have held an iron pin bar across the centre of the width axis of the frame. These drilled holes, originally positioned …
Created on: Wednesday 11th September 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
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Record ID: CAM-91C5F6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn, incomplete, cast copper alloy buckle of Medieval date. It comprises a single loop D-shaped frame with a straight offset bar. The pin is missing. Although there is no obvious notch for a pin, there is a slight indentation which can be felt to the touch. This is centrally placed on the upper surface of the convex part of the frame. The overall length of the frame is 16.8mm and it has a width of 19.1mm. The artefact weighs15.71g. The cross-section of the frame is D-shaped with a flat reverse. It expands to a thickness of 2.4mm opposite the offset bar. The frame aperture measures …
Created on: Friday 30th August 2019
Last updated: Friday 6th September 2019
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