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Description: | Pin from a buckle, of 'shield-on-tongue' type. The integral plate over the pin is actually shaped more like a violin, with a rounded end then a waist formed by two rounded cut-outs, then a rectangular lobe with a nick in each short projecting edge. The shaft of the pin projects from this last lobe and tapers slightly (not quite evenly and symmetrically) to a strongly downcurved tip which would have fitted around the outer edge of the buckle frame. On the underside of the rounded end of the plate are the remains of the loop which would have hinged the pin to the buckle frame. These consist of a small, slightly off-centre projection which emerges from what looks like iron corrosion. Testing with a magnet produced no response but it may be that the lump is too small and too corroded to have any metallic iron left. The single projection implies that the loop was made from a strip of copper alloy cast in one with the pin and bent over to form an open loop. These pins are characteristic of late 6th- and early 7th-century Anglo-Saxon buckles. Length 27 mm, maximum width 11 mm. | 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: | 575
625 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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