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Description: | A complete copper-alloy D-shaped buckle frame dating to the ninth to eleventh centuries. It measures 36.4mm in width, 42mm in length and 6mm in thickness. This buckle frame has three animal heads, one at either end of the loop and one at the pin rest, and an inset bar. The bar has traces of iron corrosion at one end, presumably from the now missing pin. The animal heads are three-dimensional; each has a pair of circular drilled eyes and grooves running down the snout, which is square ended. The larger head, at the pin rest, has a V-shaped notch between the eyes, which would have acted as a pin rest. The rest of the frame is a pointed oval in cross-section, angled slightly. It is decorated with three to four longitudinal grooves, forming five ridges in between. The grooves are made by rocking an engraver back and forth very slightly. The second and fourth ridges are interrupted in each half of the loop by three very short transverse grooves. This buckle frame is almost identical in both size and style to another example from Orford, see SF-7560. Dating of these frames is difficult due to the simple decoration of the animal heads but they are thought to be 9th to 11th century. One from Old Sarum has been published, although not from a dated context (Hinton 1974, no. 32).
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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