BUCKLE 814386

Description: A complete medieval (late 14th to early 16th century AD) copper alloy annular buckle pin. In plan, it is a long slender rectangle with a rounded blunt tip. The opposite terminal has a rounded penannular loop which would be fixed around the bar of the frame of a buckle. On the upper surface, adjacent to the bottom of the loop, the pin has a ridge made up of three small raised lines. The buckle pin measures 49.82mm in length, 5.42mm in width at the ridge and is 4.99mm thick. It weighs 8.13g. Similar pins are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (2002), for example No. 28. Egan and Pritchard (2002:57) comments that these pins and frames from which they are commonly found are dated to the late 14th to early 16th century. Egan, G. and Pritchard, F., 2002 Dress Accessories, c. 1150- c. 1450 (Medieval finds from Excavations in London) London: Boydell Press

Date: 1350 - 1500

Object type: BUCKLE

Last import: August 15, 2017