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Description: | A worn and incomplete copper-alloy buckle plate of medieval date. The plate is of trapezoidal form, being wider at the buckle end (25.4mm) than at the attachment end (20.5mm). It is of sheet construction; it has broken at the fold. It is recessed for the frame; at the same end is a pin slot. The upper surface, which would have been visible, is decorated with a neatly incised border with three perpendicular lines extending along what remains of the recessed frame end. In each of the four corners of this main field a rivet perforation has been made from the upper surface, through. Between each perforation is a row of three punched triangles with their single points towards the edge of the plate. Within the square field created by the triangles is a punched circle, within which a well rendered fleur-de-lys, duly in low relief. In some of the punched triangles are remains of what could possibly be enamel. Within some of the rivet holes are the faintest traces of what might be gilt; it is feasible that this buckle plate might have been gilded and enamelled. The artefact is worn, slightly bent and has been punctured, this time through the lower face, probably after it ceased to be used.The dating of this object is problematic in so far as trapezoidal plates have been found in London in relatively early contexts (e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 74-75; ref. 303), while the punched (triangular) decoration is a common motif on 13th and 14th-century personal and dress accessories. Ashley (2002, 8-9), whilst discussing armorial horse furniture, has shown that the use of the fleur-de-lys as a decorative motif need not post date their incorporation into the English arms (post 1340 AD). Overall, a fairly wide date range is offered for this item, tending towards a later date than the London example based on the developed rendering of the fleur-de-lys. This said, the possibility remains that the object could have been made in France towards the earlier end of the date range.
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