BUCKLE 180139

Description: An incomplete medieval composite buckle with integral box plate. The majority of the frame is missing. There is a central perforation at the junction of frame and plate which would have held a wire pin, the latter now missing. The waisted junction is moulded (min. W.: 12.25mm), with a pair of transverse ridges at the frame end and a further ridge at the start of the box plate. The plate is inscribed on it upper surface with black letter 'N'. It expands to a width of 18.85mm at the attachment end. The buckle is recessed on the lower surface to accommodate the strap. The strap would have been held in place by a sheet plate which is joined to the buckle by a rivet in each corner. The sheet is now corroded and the rivet perforations have been abraded through at the attachment end; the rivets all survive to a greater or lesser extent. A similar buckle can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996, 38; ref. 225). Contemporary box plates, also inscribed with an 'N', are published in Read (1995, 60-61: ref. 266) and Whitehead (1996, 38; ref. 219). The closest (and complete) parallel has been recorded on this database: DENO-78E5F1.

Date: 1400 - 1500

Object type: BUCKLE

Last import: August 15, 2017