File:Medieval buckle (front and back) (FindID 112585).jpg

English: The buckle frame is made from cast copper alloy. It measures 21.4mm in length from side edge to side edge. The width from the apex of the loop to the strap bar (including lip and pin) is 18.3mm. Its weight is 2.81g.

     


     In plan the buckle frame is D-shaped and in cross-section the frame is sub-oval.  On the outside edge there is a slight lip.  The obverse and reverse of the object are both undecorated. The strap bar is sub-oval in cross-section.    On the reverse of the strap bar the surface is quite rough suggesting that the buckle has possibly been damaged, or was possibly attached to something else.  The pin has been made from a rectangular sheet of cast copper alloy.  A flat rectangular shaped portion of the pin is curled around the strap bar.  The point of the pin has been created by folding the long edges of the metal sheet in towards one another, therefore creating a tapered and recessed pin. 
     


      The buckle is a dark matt green grey colour.  It is well preserved with little signs of abrasion.  It is uncertain however whether the buckle is complete or not.
     

As an example, Egan and Pritchard (Egan, G and Pritchard, F. 1991 Medieval Finds From Excavations in London: 3. Dress Accessories c.1150 – c.1450, HMSO, London, fig.56; 396) illustrate a D-shaped buckle which is similar to, but smaller than the recorded object. Egan suggests that these type of buckles date to the 12th to 14th centuries (p.76).