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Description: | Incomplete buckle with hollow plate, now missing most of its frame. The slightly trapezoidal plate was made by casting the front and sides together, and soldering on a separate sheet backplate (now missing). The front of the plate has a crenellated open end with four 'merlons', with engraved lines along it; the centre of the plate is decorated with a poorly engraved black-letter lower-case initial (a?) on a pecked background. There are two rivet holes at the open edge, one in each of the inner 'merlons', and one in each corner at the opposite end of the plate. A fifth hole in the centre is less neatly made; it may be for an additional rivet, or may be accidental damage. The plate is joined to the frame by a waisted area; beyond this is a bar with longitudinal mouldings, perforated by a rectangular pin hole in which a complete, but bent, copper-alloy pin still hinges. The pin tapers smoothly to a point, and has bevelled edges and neat decorative oblique filemarks. Its unbent length is c. 50 mm. Hardly any of the frame survives - just a tiny stub to one side and a slightly longer bit on the other which preserves the remains of an openwork scrolled decorative outer border. Such borders are common on these buckles, which were generally quite well made and must have been relatively expensive. The frame and plate have extensive traces of white-metal coating on both front and back; the pin has no surviving coating. The total surviving length of the frame and plate is 43 mm, and the total unbent surviving length is c. 76 mm.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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