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Description: | A complete copper-alloy D-shaped buckle frame with plate and pin in-situ. The D-shaped frame measures 32.2mm in width and 24.2mm in length. The outer edge is expanded and decorated with a central raised triangle with a transverse groove down its centre for the tip of the pin to rest in. To either side of this central triangle there are diagonal bands of decoration, each band consists of boarder grooves with small transverse elements within them. Beyond these there are two pairs of opposing grooves on either side of the frame. The frame has slightly raised knops where it joins the bar. The bar is offset, narrowed and circular in cross-section. The pin is copper-alloy and attached to the bar via an open loop, it measures 13.6mm in surviving length, its tip is missing due to an old break now worn, and c4mm in width. It has a transverse ridge where the pin loop joins the shaft. The buckle plate is rectangular in shape, measuring 34.8mm in length and 24.8mm in width. It is a folded plate and is recessed for the frame with a rectangular slot for the pin. The front face has a rectangular panel, which is decorated with a boarder groove and within this an interlace lozengiform pattern consisting of a central lozenge and a cross. The inside edge of the plate terminates with a central projection, 10.7mm in width, with a side profile zoomorphic bird-like neck and head projecting from either side of this, these have a total width the same as that of the rectangular decorated panel. There are central decorative grooves running along the centre of the projection and the zoomorphic terminals. There are copper-alloy rivets through the centre of the zoomorphic heads, which may have not only have had a functional purpose, attaching the plate to a strap, but also are positioned to represent eyes. The back face of this buckle is undecorated and the folded plate has a short back face, just long enough to cover the bar. This buckle is very similar to an example from Norwich (Margeson 1993, 27, fig 14, no 141) and another from London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 131, no 608). Both of these examples were discovered in excavated medieval contexts dating to the 14th century.
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