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Description: | Incomplete unidentifiable object, probably late medieval or post medieval in date, and possibly part of a buckle frame with integral plate.The plate, now a worn and broken roughly triangular shape, is decorated with lines of rocker-arm. It is possible these might form an animal - two long horizontal curving lines are flanked on either side by diagonal lines, possibly indicating legs, or water. However if this is the main of the decoration it it is cut short by the extension of the arms (frame), one of which has broken at the plate. The plate also has a semi-circular hole towards its outside (damaged) edge, possibly for a pin.The sides of the plate have a narrowing rib, an extension of the arm, flnking each outside edge.The arm is an elongated triangle in shape with filing marks on the inside edge. It is narrowest where it extends from the plate (3.1mm) and widest at the opposite end (5mm), after a length of 20.7mm. This end has been broken.The underside of the object is slightly distorted and therefore possibly unfinshed, suggesting it may have had a back plate or perhaps been soldered to something.The object measures 37.4x23.6x(max)2.5mm and weighs 2.72g. The decoration suggests a late medieval/ early post medieval date.
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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