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Description: | Medieval copper alloy buckle. The plate is of (0.5 ?? 1mm) thick sheet in the form of a bird, body & spread wings separated by roughly keyhole-shaped spaces, with punched decoration of lines of tiny triangles, with three grooves to mark the slightly flaring tail. One wing terminal is pierced by an iron rivet. The other terminal is much smaller, perhaps a casting fault, and an iron rivet is set above it. There is a third rivet through the middle of the bird??s body. Pin slot, no frame recesses but tiny spiked projection on both sides next to fold. Front part 41mm x 37mm. The rear part is only 10.5mm long, and 29mm wide at the fold. The cast pin is lacking most of its shank, but adjacent to the break there are two large side-lobes, curled forward and with rounded terminals, width 29mm. The frame is rectangular (40mm x 24mm), though incomplete and very badly distorted, with a broad and projecting notched lip in the centre of the outside edge.
Several very close parallels for the plate have been recorded in Norfolk: Barton Bendish HER 20399, Broome HER 28867, Hillington HER 39307, Narborough HER 31173, Quidenham HER 37284 and Watton HER 39299 and one from Corton in Suffolk. The first, found in 1992, was dated 12th / 13th century by Sue Margeson. This example is the first of which the frame, pin and plate have been present. | 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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