Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for Z 30357: 'Oval. Tongue missing.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old handwritten label adhered to back reads: 'Devils Dyke, Reach, 1848'.
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Display)
Previously mounted on patterned paper-wrapped display board, along with Z 30358, with handwritten labels reading 'Chape [crossed through] & Buckle (bronze). Devil's Dyke, Reach, Cambs. 1848. Camb. Ant. Soc. 1883.' and 'Bronze buckle and girdle end. Devil's Dyke, Reach, Cambs. C.A.S.'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Accession register description for Z 30357: 'Bronze buckle.'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Field collection)
Collected in 1848.
Event Date 1848
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Central bar also missing.
Event Date 24/8/2001
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Part of a shoe or knee buckle of cast copper alloy, possibly bronze. Loop frame is oval shaped, with bevelled sides and small raised points in the inside centre of each long side. Separate spindle bar and pin are missing.
Event Date 22/11/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Amendments / updates)
The period field of this record previously read 'Medieval'. However, this type of buckle is similar to shoe and knee buckles dating to the Jacobean period (c. 1660-1700, Post Medieval). The period field has been updated accordingly. [Whitehead, Ross (1996). 'Buckles: 1250-1800'. Greenlight Publishing, Essex. See pp. 96-97.].
Event Date 22/11/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad