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Late Medieval: Single looped buckle frame
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National Museums Liverpool , Teresa Gilmore, 2012-03-02 12:39:10
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Late Medieval: Single looped buckle frame
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A cast copper alloy single looped oval buckle frame with a debased ornate outside edge style, typically of late 12th to late 14th Centuries AD.

It consists of a oval frame, with an narrow offset bar, with a recess for the leather strap. The pin is missing. The front of the buckle has moulded decoration, along the outside edge, the reverse is flat and undecorated. The decoration consists of three horizonal incised slits across the outer edge, with V shaped knops present at the top and bottom. It would appear to be a debased version of the ornate outside edge style. The back of the buckle consists of an offset bar.

The buckle is a dark green colour, with an even surface patina.

The buckle frame measures 16.45mm in length, 16.43mm wide and 2.3mm thick. It weighs 1.3 grams.

Many examples of this style of buckle (an oval frame, with an ornate outside edge) were recovered from the excavations along the London waterfront. The stratigraphy suggests that this particular buckle fashion was a long lived one, from the late 12th Centuries to the late 14th Centuries AD (Egan, 1991, p.76). As such there are several published parallels to this particular find, including #294 (Egan, 1991, p.73) and #91 (Whitehead, 2003, p.22).

References:
Egan, G. 1991 Buckles in Egan & Pritchard, 1991, pp.50-123

Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. 1991. Dress Accessories. Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 3. The Stationary office/ Museum of London.

Whitehead, R. 2003 Buckles 1250-1800 Greenlight Publishing.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Staffordshire
Date between 1150 and 1350
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 491772
Old ref: WMID-0BE8C3
Filename: WMID-0BE8C3.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
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Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/372549/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/491772
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Object location52° 37′ 13.44″ N, 1° 51′ 19.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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