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Description: | Cast copper-alloy buckle with attached but not integral plate. The buckle loop is semi-circular with a wide flat outer edge which tapers greatly to form the very narrow sides and bar. The buckle plate is rectangular and formed of one piece which is folded around the buckle loop bar with a slot for the, now missing, pin. The reverse of the plate is plain whilst the front carries raised decoration depicting a peacock going left with fantastical foliate tail in typical Romanesque style.. This design would undoubtedly have been gilded and a similar example can be seen elsewhere on the database that has retained some of this decoration (SWYOR-0F2191). Two rivets are still present through the outer corners of the buckle plate which would have been used to secure the plate to the cloth or leather strap.
A very similar example but with a lion motif instead of the peacock can be seen in Egan and Pritchard??s (1991) ??Dress Accessories?? on page 111. The lion plate is from a twelfth or thirteenth century context, and other examples dated to the thirteenth century are known, suggesting a similar date for the peacock plate.
Dated c.1150-1300 AD. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burrill, Charlotte - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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