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Description: | Medieval copper alloy buckle with integral long plate, 58mm long, 12mm wide and 3mm thick. The object is good condition with a brown patina and weighs 6.24 grams. The loop is circular in section and form and emerges from a semi-circular sectioned, rectangular shaped plate. The loop has a small semi-circular recess above an integral bar with a circular hole below it to contain the pin. This is folded around the bar and tapers to a point. It has a semi-circular section and is bright green in colour. The plate has two intact copper alloy rivets, one at each end. It terminates with a raised area which is sub semi-circular in form and has two small sub triangular protrusions at each upper corner. The rounded end contains a short rectangular protrusion. This may be an attempt at an animal head terminal, but more likely the protrusion is the tip of a hook which would have attached this buckle onto a spur arm. Most of the buckles of this sort are thought to be spur buckles, although the more decorated examples could have other uses, perhaps part of a horse harness ? | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Scott, Wendy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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