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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy buckle, Romanesque, c.1150-1250. Oval single loop buckle with moulded relief decoration of two facing animals (these appear to be quadrupeds - lions / dragons?) on the expanded outer edge - the animal are the right way up with the outer edge pointing down; the reverse of the outer edge if flat; rounded knop at either end of the narrowed & off-set circular sectioned pin bar; sheet pin. The pin and the frame are of different copper alloys - the pin is light blue-green, the frame red & brown-green. Length of frame 21.6mm (the strap bar is slightly bent outwards - original length c. 20mm), width 32.04mm, thickness across pin loop 4.8mm, thickness across outer edge of frame 3.6mm, weight 5.87g.See NMS-9BBAE2 for a similar buckle with moulded decoration although the animals are probably wyverns, dated to c.1150-1250, with a reference to a parallel in Zarnecki et al "English Romanesque Art 1066-1200" (1984), no.256
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