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Description: | A copper-alloy possible decorative buckle plate, flat and measuring 34mm by 25mm in size. This possible buckle plate has a rectangular part measuring 26mm by 21mm in size, its front face decorated with an incised zig-zag double stranded cross within an incised zig-zag border. One edge of this rectangular-shaped part is incomplete due to an old break and from the opposite edge there is a protrusion, 26mm in length and 12mm in width. This is also decorated on its front face with two lines of zig-zags which follow the curve of the 'M.' This possible buckle plate has two circular perforations, they are parallel and central, one is near to the edge of the rectangular part and the other at the base of the M-shaped protrusion. The back face is undecorated. The style of this possible buckle plate implies that it is medieval in date.Helen Geake writes: This object, with its projection from one corner suggesting the remains of a buckle frame, and its broken fleur-de-lis terminal, is reminiscent of buckles from Norwich (Margeson 1993, no. 141) and London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 608, there recorded as a strap-end but probably an incomplete buckle). Both are from 14th-century contexts. The problem with interpreting this Suffolk find as a buckle, however, is that the hole nearest the remains of the putative buckle frame appears too small to have held a pin.
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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