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Description: | Medieval buckle; Cast copper alloy single loop buckle with openwork design incorporating two 3-dimensional beasts in relief. Buckle has a D-shaped frame which widens and deepens towards the back of the frame to give a broad, concave, 3-dimensional cross section. This is decorated in openwork moulding with two opposing beasts, possibly dogs, standing chest to chest but with both heads facing forwards. The pin bar is recessed, narrow and circular in cross section. The pin is missing but would have touched the buckle frame between the heads of the two beasts. Dated to the late 11th or 12th centuries.Width (side to side) 23.8mm, depth (pin bar to back of frame) 15.3mm, height 9.2mm, weight 4.79g.The decoration on this buckle indicates an early Medieval date. A number of similar buckles have been recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Compare the records for KENT-BF2C37, SOMDOR-861648 and HAMP-1F10A7. NARC-70E046 may be a fragment of a similar buckle and NMS-9BBAE2 has similar stylistic features, although it does not have the openwork element to the design
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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