File:Incomplete Late medieval copper alloy buckle (FindID 128707).jpg

English: Incomplete cast copper alloy late medieval buckle. When complete, this buckle would have been formed from a large open sub-square frame with central pin bar, with gently inward curving sides and ends (essentially making them concave), with an integral quatrefoil at each corner. What remains of the example recorded here is one side of the frame with two complete quatrefoils. The surviving bar of the frame is domed in section, having a flat reverse and is now bent into an L shape with an internal angle of approximately 100 degrees. Extending from beneath one quatrefoil is a tiny section of the next side of the frame. The frame is decorated with a series of running incised V shapes. The object has a surviving length of 54.12mm (across the bend), is 4.26mm wide and 3.22mm thick at the bar, and weighs 6.99g. The quatrefoils are 8mm long, 9mm wide and 3.38mm thick. The object is abraded but the original surface survives with an even mid green patina. Exposed areas are light green. There are no signs of gilding. Break edges are worn suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. For an exact parallel see Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories, figure 65, number 471.