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Description: | A copper-alloy strap-end buckle with hollow plate (also known as a ??box chape??).
Two copper alloy rivets remain in situ in the open end. The box chape has been cast as one piece with the buckle. The chape has a flat front plate and a flat back plate, each plate has a decoratively cut edge, where the open end is. The box chape tapers down to the strap bar.
The front plate has been decorated with ??Black?? lettering. The letter is an M, within a border. The area surrounding the letter has been filled with incised lines.
The object becomes much thinner and is waisted at the point where the box chape becomes the strap bar and ultimately the buckle. An elaborately moulded D-shaped buckle would then have extended out from the strap bar. All that survives now are two worn stumps, one in the centre and one at one end of the strap bar. All the breaks are well worn and corroded.
The pin is missing.
The reverse of the object is undecorated. The metal is a mid greyish-green colour. These buckles, sometimes called ??lyre-shaped??, date to the 15th century. Similar buckle have been recorded onto the database see record numbers: SUSS-C95A85, SUSS-F382B1, SUSS-35BDE6 and SUSS-667DF2. | Subjects: | lyre-shaped | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrews-Wilson, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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