BUCKLE 479204

Description: A broken and incomplete cast copper-alloy post-medieval double-looped buckle frame. The frame is formed of a pair of oval loops with moulded decoration on their edges. There is an expanded, sub-triangular moulding at each end of the pin bar. This is decorated on the upper surface by three incised lines, the central straight, the others angled. There is a similar moulding on the extant outer edge, slightly larger. This pin bar is trapezoidal in cross-section. Around it the basic pin survives in situ bent upwards at its tip. One of the loops has broken directly at the pin bar mouldings, depriving the buckle of one of the mouldings. The lower surface of this buckle is concave as a result of the casting process. The upper surface is bevelled very slightly both internally and externally. This artefact has corroded to a mid-grey colour over a red-brown metal with patches of off-white and light-green corrosion product. Viewed in profile one can see that the buckle has been slightly bent as a consequence of old damage, downwards at the surviving pin bar moulding which has also cracked transversely. Similar buckles can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996, 65), dated to the 16th/17th centuries AD.

Date: 1550 - 1650

Object type: BUCKLE

Last import: August 15, 2017