BUCKLE 518923

Description: A small cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame of medieval to early post-medieval date, incomplete in as much as it is missing its pin. The frame is formed of two conjoined ovals such that the sides incurve; one loop is larger than the other. The frame is shallowly bevelled both internally and externally on the upper surface; the lower surface is flat. The pin bar thus has a trapezoidal cross-section. A small trace of iron corrosion product at the centre of the pin bar suggests that the pin was made of iron. The buckle frame has a green/brown patina where it survives, but some of this has been lost to corrosion in places. Buckles of this size with double oval frames have been found in late medieval contexts (cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 82-83; ref. 341), but as the form persists a later date cannot be ruled out.

Date: 1400 - 1600

Object type: BUCKLE

Last import: August 15, 2017