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Description: | Rectangular buckle frame made from copper alloy. The top and bottom edges are wide, a low triangle in cross-section and decorated with slight transverse ribbing. At either end of the top and bottom edges is an outward-facing animal head seen from above, with individually rounded ears each with a blind-drilled dot. There does not appear to be any other decoration on the animal heads, but the buckle is in general quite worn and details may now be missing. The bar and the outer edge of the buckle frame are both much narrower than the top and bottom edges, and are both inset so that they run between the ears of the animals. The bar is circular in cross-section, 3 mm in diameter; the outer edge is similar, but in the centre is a pointed and grooved pin rest. When the buckle frame is held with the pin rest to the right, the top edge is bent; this bend does not appear to have caused any stress to the metal and so probably occurred during antiquity. The buckle measures 36 mm long by 31 mm wide, and is a maximum of 5.5 mm thick. It weighs 13.9g.This buckle is similar to a series of D-shaped buckles decorated with animal heads, one of which is published by David Hinton (1974, no. 32). A rectangular example has recently been found in Hampshire (PA database no. HAMP-BA9FC0) but they are far less common than the D-shaped variety. From the style of the animal heads they can be dated to the 9th or 10th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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