Context (Field collection)
The catalogue card notes: 'found during building of Exam[ination] School, 1908... on a number of skeletons on the site of the Austin Friary'.
Event Date 1908
Author: maa

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Context (References)
Duckworth, W.L.H. et al. 1909. 'On the Human Bones found on the site of the Augustine Friary, Bene't Street, Cambridge'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 14. p. 38
Event Date 1909
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Accession register: Small oblong [buckle] with strap-loop and chatelaine-hook.
Event Date 1910
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Cranage, D.H.S and Stokes, H.P. 1921. 'The Augustinian Friary in Cambridge, and the History of its Site.' Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 22. pp. 053-075
Event Date 1921
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (CMS Description)
Catalogue card for 1910.270-275: Small finds. Six U-shaped bronze buckles with fragments of leather belts. Fragment of friars brown cloth habit (not originally numbered). Two tokens, one very worn (not recorded an original number). One circular, one rectangular buckle (not originally numbered).
Event Date 26/11/1986
Author: maa

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Context (Other)
For a similar buckle, with complete suspension loop and dated between 1350-1450, see PAS YORYM-623346. Within MAA's collection, see also 1928.964.
Event Date 25/5/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Bronze double-loop buckle with remains of a suspension hook. Rectangular frame, with decorative stepped sides, separately asymmetrically by the pin bar. The pin bar extends blow the frame to form a swivelling hook, now partially broken. Remains of leather belt affixed around the rectangular loop.
Event Date 25/5/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Display)
Mounted on perspex for display, along with 1923.1597. Handwritten exhibition label reads: 'Fragment of woolen habit, tokens, buckles, etc. from site of Austin Friary, Benet St, Cambridge. Found during building of Examination School, 1908. 23.597[sic]'. A later hand struck through '23.597' (incorrectly) and added '1910.270-5 buckles' (correctly).
Event Date 26/5/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Field collection)
The material held by the museum from Austin Friary has come in at various times and with different variations as to the Place field (i.e. Bene't Street, Peas Hill, etc.), especially as the site straddled different streets in Cambridge. In an attempt to clarify this, when it is possible to confirm that the material came from the Friary or more generally from the Examination School site, these have been added in addition to the existing Place information.
Event Date 26/5/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Conservation (Surface Clean)
CON.2017.3863 | Surface Clean
Event Date 9/6/2017
Author: Rhian Ward

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Description (Other)
Andrew Hall (2018): 'A small copper alloy locking buckle. Very similar to [1928.964]. The locking arm is broken. A small fragment of leather strap of 11mm width is attached.'
Event Date 25/11/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Analysis)
This buckle was examined in April 2018 by Andrew Hall of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit, who described it and gave the date as late medieval. As Craig Cressford dated it as 14th-15th century based on the site, this date has been retained.
Event Date 11/4/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Cessford, Craig et al. (2022) 'Buried with their Buckles On: Clothed Burial at the Augustinian Friary, Cambridge.' Medieval Archaeology, 66:1. pp. 151-187
Event Date 2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2023.12 | Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Event Date 21/6/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn