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Description: | A worn cast copper-alloy medieval buckle plate. The plate is of an elaborate shape with fleur-de-lys terminal. At the other end the plate is folded round and riveted to the upper surface with an ?iron rivet. This lower fold only extends for 18.25mm along the plate. The pin bar which would have been held within the fold has been lost; the pin is also missing. The pin bar fold is 25.2mm wide, with a central pin slot, 7.2mm wide. Beyond, towards the lys terminal, the plate expands to a maximum width of 28.1mm before reducing to 15.2mm, below. As the plate reduces in width the lower fold is riveted to the upper, as mentioned above, below the central pin slot. After 8.7mm at this width the plate incurves to a minimum width of 7.5mm before expanding to the fleur-de-lys terminal; the terminal point has a rounded knop and is delineated by two diagonal 'chip carved' grooves on the upper surface. At the base of the lys is a second rivet hole; this second rivet is missing. A similarly elaborate buckle plate with fleur-de-lys terminal can be found illustrated in Margeson (1993, 27; ref. 141). Such buckle plates can be attributed a 14th-century date and were often gilded.
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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