https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png UKDFD Recording Software https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ Double loop buckles https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles.html Double Loop Oval Buckle https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles/double-loop-oval-buckle-59109.html Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:29:51 GMT Double loop buckles Double Loop Oval Buckle  
Description: A plain double loop oval buckle complete with copper-alloy pin. Frame has bevelled inside and outside edges.
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Category: Double loop buckles
]]> Double Loop Annular Buckle https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles/double-loop-annular-buckle-59057.html Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:43:46 GMT Double loop buckles Double Loop Annular Buckle  
Description: A plain double loop annular buckle with bevelled sides. Corrosion staining on the strap bar suggests that the missing pin was made of iron.
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Category: Double loop buckles
]]> Double Loop Annular Buckle https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles/double-loop-annular-buckle-58699.html Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:29:35 GMT Double loop buckles Double Loop Annular Buckle  
Description: A double loop annular iron buckle with surviving iron pin and incomplete hooked iron plate. The frame is of flattened rectangular cross section and may have had punched frontal decoration. The hooked end of the plate is missing.

The buckle is likely to be from a spur. Ross Whitehead (see References below) notes that:
"Annular buckles fitted with buckle plates ending in a hook (Nos. 258-259) are spur buckles of the 15th and 16th centuries. They superseded buckles with cast integral plates and hooked ends for this purpose after c.1400."
Whitehead's buckles are both copper alloy, but they are otherwise closely similar to the present iron specimen.
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Category: Double loop buckles
]]> Double Loop Rectangular Buckle https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles/double-loop-rectangular-buckle-58453.html Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:39:39 GMT Double loop buckles Double Loop Rectangular Buckle  
Description: A double loop rectangular buckle with baluster shaped ends. The pin is missing.
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Category: Double loop buckles
]]> Double Loop Annular ’Rose’ Buckle https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles/double-loop-annular-rose-buckle-58317.html Sun, 03 Nov 2024 18:13:08 GMT Double loop buckles Double Loop Annular ’Rose’ Buckle  
Description: A double loop annular buckle in the form of a five-petalled flower. The pin is missing.
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Category: Double loop buckles
]]> Double Loop Annular Buckle https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles/double-loop-annular-buckle-52724.html Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT Double loop buckles Double Loop Annular Buckle  
Description: A plain double loop annular buckle. The pin is missing.
Category: Medieval, Buckles and buckle plates, Double loop buckles
Category: Double loop buckles
]]> Double Loop Rectangular 'Locking' Buckle https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles/double-loop-rectangular-locking-buckle-58147.html Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:37:51 GMT Double loop buckles Double Loop Rectangular 'Locking' Buckle  
Description: The frame only of a double loop rectangular buckle of the so-called ’locking’ type. The frame is drilled for the spindle, which was integral with the locking arm. The ’locking arm’ on buckles of this type was possibly used to suspend a purse, knife, or other small personal item.

See also UKDFD 42324. For a complete buckle of similar type, see UKDFD 27897.
Category: Medieval, Buckles and buckle plates, Double loop buckles
Category: Double loop buckles
]]> Double Loop Oval Buckle https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles/double-loop-oval-buckle-58073.html Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:00:53 GMT Double loop buckles Double Loop Oval Buckle  
Description: A double loop oval buckle with two knops at symmetrical points on each loop and at each end of the strap bar. The pin is missing.
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Category: Double loop buckles
]]> Double Loop Annular Buckle with Plate https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles/double-loop-annular-buckle-with-plate-57991.html Thu, 09 May 2024 11:58:24 GMT Double loop buckles Double Loop Annular Buckle with Plate  
Description: A double loop annular buckle, the frame of which is designed to represent a fantastic animal. Mouldings of the animal's head and 'tail' project from opposite ends of the frame, which itself represents the animal's body. The animal's head extends from a long neck and is dog-like in appearance with upright moulded ears, but lacking other features. The 'tail', which has circular openwork and is decorated on the front with punched dots, somewhat resembles a Lombardic letter 'm'. The front of the body has concentric punched decoration overall. The folded sheet-metal plate and pin survive intact, the former with punched border-line decoration and the latter with indented transverse grooves at the attachment end. The plate retains two dome-headed copper-alloy rivets.

See also PAS: NMS-168991, NMS-3BD8B3 and NLM1084.

A note regarding dating
It would seem that the earliest double loop annular buckles were made with a separate strap bar (see UKDFD 41186 and PAS: SUR-CC63F2), their construction being similar to that of 'disc-on-pin' brooches of the same period (see UKDFD 37592). The present buckle, with its apparently integral strap bar, is unlikely to be materially earlier than those with separate strap bars, but shared characteristics (size, annular shape, decorative treatment, etc.) suggest that it might be of broadly similar date. The animal-head moulding is of late Romanesque style and is comparable to those decorating annular brooches illustrated by Nigel Mills in Medieval Artefacts (see References below) and dated to the 12th century. (It is noted that a broadly similar annular buckle, but with bird-shaped head and tail mouldings, is illustrated by Ross Whitehead (see References below) but dated much later.)
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Category: Double loop buckles
]]> Double Loop Oval Buckle with Plate https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/buckles-and-buckle-plates/double-loop-buckles/double-loop-oval-buckle-with-plate-57683.html Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:30:05 GMT Double loop buckles Double Loop Oval Buckle with Plate  
Description: A plain double loop oval buckle, complete with pin and folded sheet plate. The plate is waisted at the fold to fit the width of the frame and slotted for the pin. There are two rivet holes at the attachment end to secure the strap, one of which retains a copper-alloy rivet. 
Category: Medieval, Buckles and buckle plates, Double loop buckles
Category: Double loop buckles
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