BUCKLE 141578

Description: A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy post-medieval double-looped buckle frame with only just over one D-shaped loop surviving. The pin bar extends beyond the edges in rounded lobes; the pin has been lost. Orange staining along the pin bar suggests an iron pin. The reverse is flat, and the frame slightly bevelled internally and externally; in cross-section it is the shape of a trapezoid with rounded corners. On the extant outer edge is a central semi-circular field flanked on either side by a bilobed protrusion. This buckle has been bent in profile. On its surfaces it retains traces of a dark coat, probably of linseed oil, a continuation of the medieval 'vernis brun'. A buckle of this form can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996, 66; ref. 409) and dated to the 16th or 17th century. The buckle illustrated features a moulded rosette flanked on each side by a chevron in the centre of the outer loop; this buckle may have had a similar motif.

Date: 1550 - 1650

Object type: BUCKLE

Last import: August 15, 2017