BUCKLE 839312

Description: A complete medieval (late 14th to early 16th century AD) copper alloy annular buckle pin. In plan, it is a long slender shaft, circular in section, with a rounded blunt tip (now a little bent). 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 small transverse ridge. The buckle pin measures 45.85mm in length, 10.27mm in width at the ridge and is 3.86mm thick. It weighs 3.64g. Similar pins are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (2002), for example p 51. Egan and Pritchard comment 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