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Description: | A near complete Medieval copper alloy buckle frame with offset bar and buckle plate. It is complete with the exception of a small are of the back plate that is missing due to old breaks. The frame is D-shaped with thickened outer edge, integral offset bar and flattened back. It has a central narrow grooved pin slot. The pin itself is rectangular in section, looped around the integral bar, and tapers towards a point but is now bent horizontally to an angle of 45 degrees due to post-depositional damage. The buckle plate comprises a a single sub-rectangular sheet of copper alloy that is folded at one end around the buckle frame to create the plate. In plan it tapers slightly towards the inner edge and is constricted around its centre. The plate has square frame recesses and a rectangular pin slot. The lower plate is narrower and shorter than the upper plate, measuring 13.40mm in width and 8.95mm in length, and missing a small area close to one rivet hole due to old breaks. There are two circular rivet holes at the inner edge and two at the outer edge of the plate. Those at the outer edge of the plate perforate upper and lower plates and there is a single cylindrical rivet with flattened circular head in one of the holes. A single circular rivet with flattened circular head is also present in one of the rivet holes at the inner edge of the plate.
The upper surface of the buckle plate has extensive decoration. This consists of two central lis, one above the other and each pointing towards the buckle frame. The tails of the lis transform into borders that outline the central decortive motifs as well as the rivet holes. At the top and bottom edges of the plate are small triangular decorative zones that contain short vertical lines. There is a similar area of decoration at the inner edge of the plate that extends between the two rivet holes at this end and has cross-hatched decoration. A single narrow line following the exterior edges of the plate provides a border for the main decorative elements. On both the upper surfaces of the plate and the buckle frame itself are the remains of extensive gilding that would have presumably covered the entire object.
This buckle including plate measures 47.60mm in width, 21.42mm in height, and weighs 7.97g.
In shape the buckle is similar to a 13th century AD example from Medieval London although with shorter plate (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: no. 304). Similarly, a 14th century AD example from Norwich is of similar size and shape but with larger lower plate and decorative inner edge (Margeson, 1993: no. 137). The decorative elements of this buckle suggest a Medieval date of between the 11th and 14th centuries AD. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brown, Andrew | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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