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Description: | Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle with integral plate. The oval frame is recessed for the pin, and the straight outside edge is decorated with obliquely engraved grooves around a pin notch. The cast pin is broad and flat at the loop, which is adorned with an engraved saltire between two transverse grooves. The remainder is D-sectioned and tapering. There is a small lobe on both sides at the junction of frame and plate, and between them the rectangular pin hole is framed on three sides by engraved grooves. From the lobes the sides of the plate are chamfered as far as large projections with straight ends and lateral half-round cut-outs. The distorted terminal or attachment edge is narrow and hooked. Such terminals are found on buckles used with spurs, but as there are no rivet holes on this piece it must have had some other function, unless it is unfinished. The latter suggestion is most likely, because there are no means of attachment to a strap. The elaborate form of the plate is very unusual. Overall length 63mm. Pin length 25mm. Frame width 39.5mm. Maximum width of plate 27mm. 13th ?? 14th century. | Subjects: | Romano-British | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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