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Description: | Medieval buckle; cast copper alloy single loop, trapezoidal buckle with ornate buckle plate decorated with a lion. This buckle is of probable 14th century date. The buckle frame is trapezoidal with a tapering, triangular cross-section. The frame is expanded at the front corners which are drawn out to lobed knops. The buckle has a tapering pin of copper alloy curled around the pin bar. The buckle plate is formed of a single sheet of copper alloy, folded back on itself around the pin bar. It is decorated with a moulded design of a lion heading left with its tail curled up over its back. The chest and neck are formed of concentric rows of pellets. The buckle plate, frame and pin are all gilded over all surfaces. The buckle plate has two rivet holes at the far end, one of which still contains a domed copper alloy rivet. The other has a little bent strip of metal in place of the rivet, presumably as a replacement. There is also a small amount of seemingly organic material, possibly leather, present within the buckle plate.Length (in current fixed position - not quite flat) 30.6mm, width 27.9mm, thickness (buckle plate) 3.9mm, weight 7.02gRefs: Compare the buckles in the Meols catalogue, pages 106 & 107, buckle 852.Egan and Pritchard also have similar buckle plates on pages 111-112, buckle 500 and the buckle labelled 'private collection'.See also Whitehead, page 29, buckles 163 & 164 for trapezoidal buckle frames of similar shape.
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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