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Description: | Copper-alloy buckle frame, oval with an offset (but not narrowed) bar and an ornate moulding along the outer edge. The bar has a distinct off-centre thickening, which looks as if it is the result of deliberate manufacture rather than wear. This thickening would have kept the two loops of a buckle plate in place. The moulding on the outer edge is 5 mm wide and has symmetrical decoration which continues around both front and reverse. In the centre is a transverse ridge to either side of the pin rest; then comes a groove, then an area which is incurved externally to make a corner projection. This area has a narrow central transverse ridge. The whole thing could be viewed (perhaps imaginatively) as a pair of stylised animal heads holding the pin rest between their noses. Both the pin rest and the thickened centre of the bar have iron staining from the missing pin. The proportions of this buckle frame are slender; the sides and the bar measure around 1 mm square in cross-section.
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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