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Description: | Early-Medieval copper-alloy ornate buckle frame. The upper surface of each short side is generally flat, so that these sides are broadly rectangular in section (L. 12.7. W. 5.1mm. Th. 2.9mm. & L. 13.1mm. W. 5.2mm. Th. 2.9mm). However, the short sides are highly decorated, with a zoomorphic head at each end. The heads are raised and are joined to the short sides at the top and extend beyond the frame terminating at the snout of the animal (L. 10.2mm, 9.6mm, 8.9mm & 8.7mm. W. 7.1mm, 7.1mm, 7.2mm & 7.5mm. Th. 5mm, 5.1mm, 4.7mm & 5.2mm). Each head has deeply recessed eye sockets with slightly raised ridges around. The snout of each head is decorated with a series of longitudinal grooves and raised ridges. The projecting end of each head has a lateral groove at approximately the midpoint between the upper and lower surfaces, which extends around the side of each head to approximately a third of the length of the head, representing the slightly open mouth of the animal. The upper surface of each short side has a groove along the length of each edge producing a pair of raised parallel ridges along each edge. There are a series of lateral grooves between the loongitudinal grooves, six on one side and seven on the other, producing a row of raised rectangles between the grooves. The bar appears to be undecorated (L. 19.6mm. W. 3.8mm. Th. 3.7mm). The upper surface is slightly convex so that it is D-shaped in section. The upper surface of the long side opposite the bar is also slightly convex, so that it is also D-shaped in section (L. 20.5mm. W. 3.8mm. Th. 3.1mm). There is a large pointed projection in the centre of this side. The two projecting sides of this element are raised, leaving a large recessed triangular area which would have served as the pin rest (L 8.6mm. W. 7.6mm. Th. 4mm). The pin is missing. The reverse is generally flat and undecorated. Even mid-green patina.
This buckle is similar to another rectangular example from Letheringham, Suffolk (LVPL-99FBD2). They are a variant of the more common D-shaped form with three animal heads, examples of which can be seen at SF7560, SF-9F02E3, SF-79DAF8, SF-76F478 and NMS-9B0AC7. One from Old Sarum, although not from a dated context, is in the Ashmolean Museum (Hinton 1974, no. 32). They appear to date (on art-historical grounds) to the ninth to eleventh centuries. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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