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Description: | A damaged half of a medieval copper-alloy sheet buckle plate. The main plate curves slightly as a result of bending, while the recessed loops have both been bent upwards; one is now vestigial. The artefact is trapezoidal, slightly wider (23.8mm) at the attachment end. At this end the are three perforations, one in the centre and one in each corner; all rivets are now missing. On the upper surface is a neatly engraved floral design within a linear border. In the centre is an angled quatrefoil with a circle in its centre, decorated with pecking. From the circle elements extend, between the leaves of the quatrefoil, as far as the corners of the plate where they terminate in cusped ends. In their centres these elements are decorated by neat opposed rouletted triangles. The field around the elements described is filled with opposed rouletted triangles in the transverse plane. It is the triangles that suggest a c. 14th-century date for this fragment. The artefact has a dark green patina, with areas of variable green colour where it has corroded.
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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