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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper-alloy object, probably a plate from an elaborate medieval buckle. The plate is trapezoidal, wider at the buckle end than the attachment end (19.5mm : 16.3mm). The reverse is flat and undecorated; it merely features the three rivet holes, two at the attachment end and one towards the buckle end, which travel through to the obverse. The obverse has an incised border and a field decorated by incised cross-hatching. In the centre of this decoration is a recessed circle with an incised border in which is a raised (relative to the circle) and elaborate, longitudinally orientated fleur-de-lys. Even the leaves of the lys feature incision to define their shape. Within the recessed circle there are traces of blue enamel suggestive of the quality of the object when new. Further, it seems that the buckle was once gilded. The attachment end is slightly confusing. There is a further recessed area, currently semi-circular in shape although it appears broken following old damage, which echoes the recessed circle. Flanking this are two projections, slightly in from the edge, again broken following old damage. These were presumably loops which would have held a pin bar. Along with these loops, by extension, the pin bar, pin and buckle frame are all missing. The projections seem to have been treated with adhesive. This artefact is likely to date from the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries.
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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