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Description: | Unusual medieval buckle plate made of thin copper-alloy sheet in the form of a bird, the body and wings separated by roughly keyhole-shaped spaces. There is punched decoration of lines of tiny triangles, with three grooves to mark the slightly flaring tail. The wing terminals, which would have been pierced by rivets, are missing. There is a pin slot; there are no frame recesses, but there is a tiny spiked projection on each side next to the fold (where frame recesses would normally be). The underplate is only 10mm long. The buckle plate measures 38 x 37mm and the sheet is 0.5-1 mm thick. Several very close parallels from Norfolk have been recorded: Barton Bendish, Broome, Narborough and Watton. The first was dated to the 12th or 13th century by Sue Margeson. A similar example can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Database at LIN-5FFC92. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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