Description

Summary: 3 x post-Medieval iron buckles. All badly corroded. Metal detected from topsoil: 1. Sub-rectangular frame shoe buckle. No pin. Probably Copper alloy rings. Harness fittings? 1 appears pre-industrial, others uncertain. From fieldwork undertaken by the WANHS Archaeology Field Group at Godwin's Meadow, Rodbourne, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, 2006 and 2009. A site of multiple occupation, stretching from the 10th to the 18th century, but the most intensive periods of activity extended from the latter years of the Saxon-Norman period and continued through to the end of the High Medieval period (10th-14th centuries). A complex area of earthworks which indicated that structures, enclosures, banks and ditches once existed in this area.