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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate, possibly. Only a single plate remains, which is rectangular in plan and has a slight ??U?? shaped narrowed terminal. The two arms are both broken and originally would have folded over the buckle strap bar. The opposite terminal is a broken edge, which has possibly the remains of an incomplete rivet hole along this edge. The decoration on the upper surface consists of a feint low-relief lozenge border. The upper surface of the plate has a dark green patina which is slightly abraded. The lower surface has a matte surface with a linear impression and traces of a grey coating. This may suggest there was originally a form of spacer in the buckle plate. It measures 18.59mm from terminal to terminal and 13.64mm wide. It weighs 1.1g.
The plate is probably of a Medieval date. Egan and Pritchard (Egan G. and Pritchard F. 2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press) illustrate an undecorated buckle plate of a similar size and shape, No. 519 and date this to the latter half of the 14th century. More generally the buckle dates to the 13th to mid 15th century. | Subjects: | Plate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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