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Description: | Buckle plate with zoomorphic decoration. The attachment end is shallowly split and has a single iron rivet. Beyond this, about two-thirds of the plate is occupied by two nose-to-nose high-relief animal heads. The one closest to the split end has ears set in a V shape and each drilled with a single blind hole, then beneath these two grooved eyebrows then two eyes each drilled with a single blind hole. Then comes a transverse groove, then the nose drilled with two blind holes for nostrils. The second head is the reverse of the first, but has two holes drilled for each eye and three across each ear; it?s possible that this decorative element wasn?t understood to be an animal head. Projecting from the ears of the second head are two pierced lugs which would have held the bar of the buckle frame. A rather nice example of the type; these buckle plates are part of a set with a zoomorphic buckle frame and strap-end too. Examples of single elements of the set are known from the excavations of Fishergate and Coppergate in York, and a complete buckle frame and plate were recently excavated from St Faith?s Lane, Norwich. They date to the ninth century AD and are Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Scandinavian in style. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 800
900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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