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Description: | The buckle is possibly an Early Medieval example, dating to the 9th to 11th centuries. The zoomorphic terminals suggest this date. It is made from cast copper alloy. Similar buckles also date to the late Roman period, the late 4th and 5th centuries (Hawkes, S.C. and Dunning, G.C. 1961 ??Soldiers and Settlers in Britain, Fourth to Fifth Century?? Medieval Archaeology Vol. 5), but these buckle frames tend to be more flat in section than the oval sectioned frames of the Early Medieval period.
Only a fragment of the buckle frame remains, and the pin is missing. In plan appears to originally have been a sub-D shape. The strap bar and loop are both incomplete. This is not recent damage as the patina covers the breaks. The strap bar is an oval shape in section. The remaining terminal of the loop has a zoomorphic decoration which meeting the strap bar. The decoration is in the form of a moulded head, very similar to a do, which has its mouth open from which the strap bar extends. The eyes are a sub-lentoid shape, the nose a sub-oval in section and there are two flattened ears represented by ridge behind the head. . The loop is otherwise undecorated and is a sub rounded triangular shape in section. The frame has a well developed mid green patina.
The buckle measures 15.6mm long from the terminal to the loop terminal, 16.06mm wide across the zoomorphic terminal and terminal of the strap bar and 5.79mm thick across the zoomorphic terminal. It weighs 2.78g. | Subjects: | Frame | 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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