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English: An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle frame of Medieval date. It comprises a near-complete integrally cast buckle plate that is missing the frame and inner end due to old breaks. The plate is rectangular in form, expanding slightly towards the frame end, and is oval shaped in section. At the frame end project the remains of the incomplete buckle frame with a large circular perforation at the centre of the plate probably intended to hold in place the now missing pin. Approximately one third of the way along the plate from the frame is a second circular central perforation to enable attachment of the buckle to a strap or belt, with a corresponding but incomplete perforation at the inner edge of the frame. The front face of the buckle plate has decoration in the form of transverse bands of raised pellets and traces of gilding. The back face is slightly flattened and undecorated. It measures 32.44mm in length, 8.97mm in height, 2.05mm in thickness, and weighs 2.06g. This fragment of buckle plate is probably from a spur buckle, with similar examples noted from Medieval London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: nos. 320-321) and on the PAS database (see for example IOW-1584E2 or NMS-8E1B14). These indicate a date in the 13th-14th centuries AD for the current example.