Record ID: WMID-E4B490
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy single looped D-shaped buckle, of Medieval dating (AD 1250 to AD 1500). The buckle frame is complete, the pin and the buckle plate are missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The loop is sub oval in plan, with a thickened and expanded outside edge. The strap bar is narrowed and off set. Knops are present at either end of the strap bar. The knops have been decorated with a couple of engraved horizontal lines. A shallow u shaped horizontal groove is present in the centre of the expanded outside edge, this would have formed the pin rest. On either side of the p…
Created on: Wednesday 16th October 2013
Last updated: Monday 20th August 2018
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Record ID: WMID-B2BE96
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy buckle of Medieval date, circa AD1250-1400. The buckle frame and pin are complete. Less than 50% of the plate survives. Buckle frame consists of an single-looped oval frame with two lobed knops, providing constriction for a triple grooved sheet roller. The pin is made from a D-sectioned piece of wire wrapped around the central bar. The pin terminates in a blunt point. The plate is made from a sheet of copper alloy which is wrapped around the central bar. The plate has a pin hole and is recessed from the frame. The front of the plate is decorated…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2013
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Record ID: WMID-29D447
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double looped oval (spectacle) buckle frame of Post Medieval dating (AD 1550 to AD 1650). Approximately 50% of the buckle frame is present. The pin and the buckle plate are missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The buckle frame is broadly sub-rectangular in plan with a slight integrally cast central bar to which a pin would have been attached. The pin is lost but would have been attached to the central bar by the terminal being folded back upon itself. There is no evidence for a recessed pin rest on the frame. At the mid point of the loop on the surv…
Created on: Friday 25th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 25th January 2013
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