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English: Medieval buckle; cast copper alloy single loop buckle with integral, decorative buckle plate. This buckle probably dates from the period c.1250-1400. It has an oval buckle loop with a decorative knop extending from both outer corners. The back of the loop narrows to the point where the pin bar would have sat, although this is now missing, together with the pin. The buckle plate extends beyond this, tapering past two transverse ridges, one at the point of the pin bar and the other slightly further back. The second ridge is cut by a single, circular rivet hole. The buckle plate then continues to taper, before flaring into two moulded ‘leaves’ surround what was presumably a decorative terminal which is now missing. It seems fair to assume that the terminal also held a second rivet hole and the edge of this is indicated at the point of the break.

Length 32.2mm, width 12.1mm, thickness 2.8mm, weight 2.79g

Refs: See Chris Marshall’s “Buckles Through the Ages” series from Treasure Hunting magazine, originally published in 1986. Pages 9 & 10 (Section 5 “Medieval 13th to 15th century”) describe similar buckles, designating them ‘Type 1D’. See especially buckle number 27 which is very similar.

Whitehead, pages 34-35 also shows some similar buckles.