Record ID: PUBLIC-8ACA3A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval cast copper alloy single loop oval buckle, 21.95mm in length, missing its pin. The frame has an ornate moulded outer edge comprising two lobed knops flanking a constriction for a transversely grooved sheet roller which remains in place. The strap bar is narrowed, recessed and with knops on each end.  Circa 1250-1400AD. Measurements:  22.52mm long, 20.75mm wide, 8.57mm thick.  Weighs 6.6g As Whitehead (2016), p 22, number 95-96 and Egan and Pritchard (2002), p73, number 293.
Created on: Saturday 21st May 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E8A0BA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large decorative copper-alloy rectangular buckle probably dating to the late 15th or early 16th Century, probably used on a waist or sword belt. Roughly square but with the bottom and top bar slightly concave and tapering in thickness to the centre bar. There is an inner and outer engraved linear border inside which two sets of oblique lines are also engraved on each side. There is no trace of any pin. Dimensions: 43.09mm wide, 43.30mm high, 2.66mm thick. Weighs 16.7g. Ref: Buckles 1250-1800 Whitehead (2003) No. 479 p.78 Egan & Pritchard (1991) Nos. 447 and 450.
Created on: Monday 24th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th March 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-362D17
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy double loop oval buckle with moulded decoration of post-medieval date (c. AD 1550-1650). Description: The front of the buckle is slightly convex and has bevelled edges.There is a notch at the centre point of each loop, with a raised knop either side of this pin rest. The pin is missing. The back is flat and undecorated. The object has a green/brown patina. Measurements: 29.82mm long, 23.69mm wide and 2.38mm thick and 3.7g in weight Discussion: There is a similar buckle No. 358 page 61 of Whitehead Buckles 1250-1800.
Created on: Thursday 18th March 2021
Last updated: Thursday 2nd September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A23F8F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy probable spur buckle of medieval date (c. AD 1250 - 1450). Description: The buckle has a single looped oval frame with an integral shaped plate.The plate is loosely sub-rectangular with three transverse bulges between which there are waisted sections of varying thickness. The buckle frame is sub-circular with a C-shaped frame around an oval hole. The copper alloy pin remains centrally placed and there is a small knop where the pin rests on the outer frame From the base of the pin there are lines of gilding radiating to both sides. A copper-alloy rivet rem…
Created on: Friday 4th December 2020
Last updated: Thursday 2nd September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-55ED2C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle plate of medieval date (c.1200-1400). Description: Broadly rectangular in form, the object is constructed of a piece of metal which has a section cut out of its centre, and then wrapped around a pin (possibly the buckle itself) and doubled back and held by rivets at its scalloped edge. An engraved cross pattern decorates the visible face in two sections separated by a vertical incised double line and each cross is formed by a double incised line, with an incised border straight line down its length on each side. This visible face retains one of …
Created on: Friday 6th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 3rd September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-36F282
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy single loop buckle frame of medieval date (c. AD 1250-1400). Description: The frame is oval and rectangular in cross-section with bevelled inside edges. The outside edge is D-sectioned and decorated with three knops with two raised bands between them. The cross bar is offset and narrowed. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The pin is not present.. The surfaces have an even dark green patina. Measurements: The buckle frame measures 11.65mm in height, 14.96mm in width, 2.13mm thick and weighs 1.1 grams. Discussion: A similar buckle is shown …
Created on: Tuesday 29th September 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-428398
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An fragment of a cast copper-alloy buckle of medieval date (c. AD 1350-1450). Description: The buckle is single-looped with a slightly pointed outer edge and with the stubs of integral forked spacers. It is has a oval, bevelled, lipped and notched frame. The pin is missing. It has a greenish patina. Measurements: Length: 21.06mm, Width: 18.81mm, Thickness: 3.1mm, Weight: 2.3g Discussion: A very similar buckle is illustrated in Buckles 1250-1800 AD. Whitehead 2003, no. 213 as a parallel.
Created on: Friday 31st July 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-65F903
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double loop oval buckle with pin missing. Frame with domed profile, bevelled inside edge and three transverse lines engraved in the centre of each loop. Green/brown patina. Medieval to Post Medieval dates, circa 1350-1650 AD. Identical example shown on page 53 No. 289 of Buckles - Whitehead 2003.
Created on: Thursday 21st May 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th November 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6453A0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval cast copper-alloy double loop trapezoidal buckle dating from circa 1570-1700 AD. The buckle retains its copper alloy pin which rests against one of its pointed ends and tapers to its point. There are lobed protrusions either end of the strap bar. The buckle has bevelled outside edges and each half of its internal frames. Greenish patina. It measures measures: Length: 38.67 mm, Width: 23.01 mm Thickness: 1.6 mm and Weight: 4.4 g There are similar examples on page 82 Nos. 512/513 of Buckles - Whitehead 2003
Created on: Thursday 21st May 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th November 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-64147D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy single-loop buckle of medieval date (c. AD 1350-1450). Description: The buckle comprises an oval, lipped and notched frame complete with copper-alloy shaped pin. The forked spacers consist of two prongs, one of which has a broken tip, which have been cast integrally with the frame and extend into now missing sheet metal plate strap extension from the back of the frame. There is a raised and incised casing for the pin where the spacers meet the buckle frame. The object has a greenish patina. Measurements: length: 31.27mm; width: 27.28mm; thick…
Created on: Thursday 21st May 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9CA1AB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast Early Saxon copper-alloy D-shaped buckle, of Marzinzik's (2003) Type 1.10b-ii, dating c. AD 475-600. The buckle has a D-shaped frame with enlarged out section of the frame perhaps as a tongue rest. All that remains of the pin is iron corrosion on edge of the frame. Thickness of bar and outside edge 2.2 and 4.8mm. Measurements: 15.63mm long, 14.85mm wide 4.5mm thick, weighs 3.3g. Similar examples are shown on this database NMS-4F5795 and NMS-C99AD2, only a small number of such buckles were listed by Marzinzik's (2003, 31).
Created on: Wednesday 30th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-586906
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy annular buckle of medieval to post-medieval date (c.AD 1350-1650). Description: The buckle has a slightly irregular thickness to the plain, double-loop frame, particularly at one end of bar and a bevelled inside edge. The pin is missing. Measurements: 18.88mm diameter, 3.2mm thick, weighs 2.5g.
Created on: Sunday 27th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 6th September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-56ABB6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sub-annular shoe or knee buckle of post-medieval date (c. 1660-1720). Description:The buckle has a drilled frame for separate spindle and downward sloping sidesand bevelled inside edges. It is grey in colour-possibly tinned. Measurements: 31.31mm long, 23.21mm wide, 3.82mm deep sides. Weighs 5.1g. Discussion: The buckle is Jacobean era (circa.1660-1720 AD). Page 97 No. 600 Whitehead.
Created on: Sunday 27th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 6th September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8B2F5E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy oval buckle with incomplete sheet buckle plate of medieval date (c.1250-1400). Description: The frame of the buckle is D-shaped in cross-section, being flat to the reverse. The D-shaped buckle outside edge consists of a semi-rectangular projection with a series of diagonal grooves, three to each side of a central triangle. There is a moulded knop at either end of the bar, which is narrowed and offset. The buckle plate consists of an incomplete rectangular sheet of metal which was folded around the strap bar to produce front and back plates of equal widt…
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 7th September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EBD04D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Pin from an Buckle of Medieval date, AD 1250-1450. The pin has a loop at one end running through 320 degrees, below the loop is a raised double collar on the front frame with two transverse grooves. The body of the pin tapers gradually. At the tip the underside has a slight notch to fit the frame. The metal has a dark green/brown patina . The larger, heavy form of the pin and the shaped tip suggests a 14th century date. Length: 45.39mm, Width: 10.55mm, Thickness: 2.79mm, Diameter (loop): 10.53mm, Weight: 4g Geoff Egan illustrates the pin type (Egan an…
Created on: Wednesday 29th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 4th November 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A09948
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval double loop buckle dating from 1550-1650 AD. Just over half of the object is present, Moulded rosette of a central pellet surrounded by five pellets on the remaining loop, lobed knop either end of the strap bar. Green patina. Measures: 27.31mm long, 22.42mm wide, 2.12mm thick. Weighs 2.99g. A similar whole buckle is illustrated on page 66 No. 408 of "Buckles 1250-1800" Whitehead 2003.
Created on: Sunday 7th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 4th November 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E36616
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy double-looped buckle of post-medieval date (c. 1500-c. 1650). Description: This buckle frame, of which just over 50% survives, is convex at the front and flat at the rear and is internally bevelled to the front. The missing oval loop would have been similar in size to the surviving loop. The bar is d-shaped in cross-section and at each end of the bar there is a knop. The pin is missing. The frame has a dark brown patina. Measurements: Length: 33.55mm; width: 29.36mm; thickness: 2.79mm. Weight: 6.02g. Discussion: A similar buckle has been publi…
Created on: Sunday 17th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 7th September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CAF352
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, forming just over half, of a small cast copper-alloy double loop oval spectacle buckle with narrowed strap bar. Notch for pin. Green patina. Measurements: 26.95mml long 17.69mm wide, 3.12mm thick. Weighs 4.02 g. C. 1350-1650. This form of buckle is a common find reported to the PAS and Whitehead (2003) illustrates a vast array of similar buckles (page 54, No.307), which he dates to c.1350-1650 AD. Other examples on the PAS database include; CORN-AB7142, KENT-2E8BC8
Created on: Saturday 16th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 4th November 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BB4FB1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete cast copper-alloy rectangular shoe or knee buckle of post-medieval date (c.1660-1720) Description: The buckle has a drilled frame for separate spindle - which is missing. It has bevelled sides and ends giving a curved feel with the outline of a number 8 aperture. It has a greenish patina. Measurements: 28.41mm long, 20.5mm wide, 2.78mm thick. Weighs 5.61g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th September 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BB0CB4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy double loop assymetrical buckle of post-medieval date(c.1350-1700). Description: These buckles usually have one rectangular and one rounded D-shaped loop on either side of the centre bar. Only a single loop remains where the centre strap bar is situated and the curved loop has been broken and lost. The outer edge of this remaining rectangular loop is slightly scalloped so as to produce a trefoil effect. The buckle has a groove on the inner straight edge of this trefoil end, which is crossed in its centre by a groove to support the pin which has bee…
Created on: Tuesday 1st January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th September 2021
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