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Description: | A cast copper alloy rectangular buckle plate or strap end. Both plates from the composite object survive, but the fold for the strap bar has been torn away resulting in damage to both plates. The plates have been broken widthways, so are now square. Two rivets can be seen in the open end of the plates. The front surface of the plate has been decorated with incised lines, the lines form an organic design of twists and twines. It appears to be a stylised copy of similar art work, which features lettering from the same period. The reverse is undecorated. No other parts of the buckle survives. Some of the medieval fabric has been preserved in between the plates. The metal is a mid greenish-brown colour. This type of buckle plate dates from the 13th century. Similar buckles can be seen in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, p81, fig: 49, Ref: 326.
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