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Description: | A late medieval copper alloy D-shaped buckle, with integral buckle plate. The buckle plate has been wrought, the D-shaped buckle has been cast and both pieces have been engraved with intricate designs. Two copper alloy rivets survive in situ, in the open end of the buckle plate. The surface of both the buckle and the plate would once have been gilded; only traces now survive in the engraved lines. Only a small stump of part of the D-shaped buckle survives. It projects from the buckle plate. The section, which survives, depicts a decorative rosette design, which has been formed by the shape of the section of the buckle frame and also by the engraving on its surface. The rest of the buckle does not survive and the break on the other side is very worn, so much so that no stump remains. The buckle plate has basically been formed by two plates of copper alloy, which have been folded over to form a box. The box is rectangular in shape, at its thickest the box measures 6.1mm. The box is attached to the strap bar of the D-shaped buckle. The box appears not to have a forked spacer inside suggesting that the leather strap would have been held in place by the two rivets situated at the open end of the box. This box gives us some indication of how thick and wide the strap would have been which would have been held in the buckle plate. The visible surface of the buckle plate 'box' has lost most of its original surface, as has most of the artefact. A trace of a decoratively engraved surface does survive near to the rivets. The engraved design depicts a floral motif, which is surrounded by faint cross-hatched lines, within a rectangular frame. The reverse is decorated. The buckle plate is complete, but the pin does not survive. The metal has a mid reddish-brown colour. Similar buckles, with composite buckle plate can be seen in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, pp80-1, 330. These buckle date to the 14th - 15th century.
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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