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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy buckle, probably a post medieval double looped buckle frame. The buckle frame is D-shaped in plan, with outwardly curving stubs protruding just beyond the bar. There is a lip on the outer edge, opposite the bar, with a knop/protrusion at either side. The pin is missing. On the front of the buckle, the lip is in the form of a zoomorphic head, viewed from above, with large round concave eyes and a pointed snout or beak with a transverse ridge running across it. Between the eyes is the point of a V shaped design, orientated horizontally. One of the two knops/protrusions that flank the lip has a rounded terminal, the other is incomplete. The remainder of the front of the buckle is decorated with a series of raised decorations, but due to the condition of the copper alloy, the designs are rather unclear. The reverse of the buckle is concave and undecorated. The buckle has a variable green patina, and where this has come away, a brown surface is visible. The buckle is 31.6mm long, 26.1mm wide, and it weighs approximaely 4g. The bar, which is slightly buckled, is 15.6mm long. Buckles with double frames become commoner in the late 14th and early 15th centuries (see Egan and Pritchard, 2002, p. 51), and examples from excavated post medieval contexts from Norwich are numerous (see Margeson, 1993, p 28, and figures 16 and 17). In plan, the incomplete buckle recorded here has similarities with the more complete object reference SF-F5F3B4 recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), which also has a decoration resembling an Anglo-Saxon anthropomorphic design; a 16th century date has been suggested. Based on the above, the incomplete buckle frame recorded here is likely to be late medieval or more probably early post medieval in 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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