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Description: | Copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame, both loops oval. The frame is flat with a simple, narrowed, central, offset bar. The frame has rounded ends and concave sides with moulded fluted knops protruding from the edge of the frame; it has a flat base and a convex profile in cross-section. There are sixteen moulded oblique lines on the outer edge of each loop, mirroring each other and creating a 'vine-scroll' pattern. There is damage where one loop of the frame has been severed from the frame, just beyond one of the central knops. The fluted knops either side of the bar mask the edge of the bar, which is recessed from the front edge of the frame; attached to the bar is the pin and a folded sheet copper-alloy tapering plate with two rivets intact. The front and back of the plate are corroded, but the back is clearly decorated with incised lines that make it look like a horse's head, following the outline of the plate. The buckle is 31.8 mm long; the bar is 25.4 mm long and 3 mm in diameter; the pin is 17.8 mm long and 2 mm in diameter; the plate is 30.4 mm long and 16.2 mm wide and 5.2 mm thick in total, using 2 mm thick sheet. Apart from the break, the buckle frame is in good condition with a polished deep green patina. A similar buckle frame and plate are illustrated in Whitehead (2003, no. 423), who dates them to c. 1550-1650.
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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