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Description: | Medieval copper alloy asymmetrical buckle, 35mm long, 27mm wide and 5mm thick. The object is in good condition with a brown patina and weighs 11.46 grams. The buckle is made up of two parts, both with rectangular sections. The first is rectangular in form and has protruding rounded knops in each corner which have circular depressions in their upper surfaces. Attached to this is a sub circular buckle loop whose outer surface is decorated with a double incised zigzag. There is a central pin rest which is rectangular in form and has a semi-circular section. It is slightly wider than the buckle at 11x7mm, and protrudes slightly on both sides. It has a small rectangular protrusion in its centre and in its upper surface the protrusion is recessed in its centre to form the pin rest. These features seem to form an animal head with pointed ears? In the centre of the recess is a circular depression, similar to those in its corners, this is odd as it would be covered by the pin? The bar which separates the rectangular and circular sections has a recessed hexagonal? bar, 3mm wide, which would have held the pin. The buckle is similar in form to medieval buckles (Egan, G MOL dress accessories, fig 65) but its thickness and decoration appear unparalled?
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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