English: Buckle frame and fragmentary plate. The buckle frame is made from cast copper alloy and is trapezoidal in plan, flaring from the bar to the outer edge The bar is slightly narrowed and is circular in cross-section.

The longest edge of the frame, opposite the bar, has a longitudinal row of punched annulets either side of a grooved pin rest. The external edge here has a V-shaped groove running along the thickness of the frame. The surface of the frame has a well developed mid grey/green coloured patina. The pin is missing.

The buckle plate is also of copper alloy, and is heavily abraded and distorted. It is made from a sub-rectangular sheet which has been folded over the strap bar. At the centre of the fold there is a notch to allow room for the pin. The upper portion of the plate has three holes, one with the remains of an iron rivet. The lower plate also has three holes, but iron rivets are visible in two of the holes.

The length of the frame and plate combined is 33.9mm. The width across the buckle frame is 27.2mm, and the thickness of the loop is 3.9mm. It weighs 5.56g.

This buckle is medieval in date. Whitehead illustrates a similar example (Whitehead 2003, no. 167)and suggests it dates to the mid 14th to 15th centuries.