BUCKLE 707105

Description: An incomplete copper alloy composite buckle. The frame only remains. The pin and separate bar are missing. The D-sectioned frame is trapezoidal with deeply in-curved sides on the long edges and slightly convex short edges. The frame is decorated with three moulded ribs on each of the short edges and two ribs on each of the four corners. The midpoint of each of the in-curving long sides is thickened for the attachment of the missing bar and this area is flanked by moulded ribs also. The frame is slightly curved and the reverse is flat and undecorated. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1650 - 1750 Dimensions: 30.56 mm x 24.03 mm x 2.94 mm Weight: 6.42 g A similar buckle is recorded in Whitehead, R, 1996, Buckles 1250 - 1800, page 98, no. 614

Date: 1650 - 1750

Object type: BUCKLE

Last import: August 15, 2017