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Description: | Copper alloy (oval framed?) buckle with rectangular decorated buckle plate and forked spacer, dating to the medieval period. Only the pin-bar of the buckle frame survives and a tiny amount of the frame at each end of this. The buckle frame appears to have been oval with an offset and narrowed bar. A small part of the buckle pin survives and this is wrapped around the pin-bar; it has a collar to prevent it slipping too far back on itself. The buckle plate is made from a single sheet of copper alloy folded back on itself with the frame between it. Between the folded buckle plate there is a forked spacer which seems to be separate from the buckle frame. The plate has incised decoration on the front; this takes the form of a fantastical beast head seen from the side with a pointed ear and forked tongue. The animal's front (or back?) leg seems to be tucked up towards the head. Behind the beast is a male (hooded) face looking the other way (right); the eye mouth and nose can clearly be seen. There are two rivet holes at the end of the plate where it would have been attached to a belt or strap. The reverse of the buckle plate is undecorated. An example with similar incised decoration is illustrated in Nigel Mill's 'Medieval Artefacts', page 15, Fig.NM.11.
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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