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Description: | A copper alloy sheet fragment, probably from the plate of a Medieval buckle. The fragment is flat, square in shape and missing the majority of the plate due to old breaks. The exterior surface has incised decoration consisting of a central transverse rectangular band with diagonal incised grooves. Above and below this band are diagonal lines that form two large triangles. The triangles have a single, short incised groove that runs from the outer edges of the plate towards the central transverse band, but does not reach it. The remaining areas of the plate either side of the triangles are filled with incised rocker decoration, one panel of which has an additional incised zigzag line. The reverse of the plate is undecorated but has extensive diagonal tool marks. The fragment measures 19.09mm in width, 20.17mm in height, 0.56mm in thickness, and weighs 1.37g. Similar buckle plates from the Medieval period decorated with incised grooves and rocker decoration are noted in Medieval London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: nos. 313, 534, 769) and Norwich (Margeson, 1993: nos. 247, 254). These suggest a date in the 12th or 13th to 15th centuries for this example.
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