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Description: | A slightly corroded and incomplete cast copper-alloy medieval single-looped buckle with integral plate. The buckle's frame is broadly rectangular in form. Its sides protrude beyond the outer edge. In the centre of the outer edge (max. W.: 26.35mm) a truncated triangular pin rest extends. It appears to be in the form of an animal's head facing outwards, with moulded snout and ears. The outer edge is bevelled externally with a central triangular notch within the pin rest. The sides of the frame are decorated with incised diagonal lines on its upper surface.
The pin is now missing, but would have been looped around a circular perforation at the frame edge of the plate. This latter curves outwards slightly into the frame. Overall the plate is sub-trapezoidal in form. The attachment end is cusped with rounded protrusions emerging from each corner. These latter both contain extant rivets. In the centre of the cusping is a semicircular protrusion, diagonal incisions continuing towards each other into the plate from its ends. A third rivet is situated just beyond these lines. Aligned with the semicircle, rivet, and, incidentally, pin hole, is an openwork equal-armed cross just in from the rivet. The plate is decorated with faint marks, either rouletting or wrigglework. The diagonal, slightly outcurving, sides feature linear notches, a decorative continuation of the incisions on the sides of the frame.
The lower surface of the buckle and plate is flat. The artefact has been bent upwards slightly in profile at the division of frame and plate. This object is unusual in form, although is decoratively consistent with later medieval buckles. It now has a mainly light green patina. | Subjects: | integral plate single-looped | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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