File:Knee buckle (plan) (FindID 464146).jpg

English: Cast copper alloy trapezoidal shoe or knee buckle with a drilled frame for a separate spindle. The frame has concave sides in plan and a flat base and a convex profile with a bevelled internal edge. The pin bar is recessed from the rest of the frame and still holds the pin and stud or anchor chape (the terminal is missing so it cannot be determined which one). At the back of the chape is a heart-shaped cartouche with the maker's mark within: H?P. This compares well to an example with the same mark illustrated in Whitehead (1996, p.99, No.616). At either end of the frame is a moulded pin rest in the form of a leaf with engraved opposing oblique lines. At the end of each spindle hole there is a three-lobed knop defined by transverse lines. At the end of one of these knops, there is a lozenge-shaped motif engraved into the frame, and this motif appears to have been worn away in the other three quarters of the frame. There is some encrusted iron corrosion product on the surface of the pin bar, on the chape and also on the frame at the ends of the spindle. The buckle frame is 27 mm long and 17 mm wide and 2 mm in thickness. The bar within the frame is 9 mm long and 4 mm wide and 4 mm in thickness.

Whitehead (1996) illustrates similar examples on page 99, Nos.616 & 625, which are dated from c.1660-1720.
Read (1988) illustrates another example on page 145, No.944, which is dated from c.1660-1720s