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Description: | Incomplete buckle frame. It looks as if it ought originally to have been a double-looped buckle frame (bar projecting slightly from frame, sub-rectangular loop with rounded corners) but all breaks are old and worn and there is no evidence surviving for the second loop, and part of the bar is missing too. The surviving outer edge has two pairs of transverse mouldings with a lozengiform lobe between, which has worn relief decoration - apparently a groove around a central raised triangle, with a sunken dot in the centre and a short groove to either side where the pin rest would normally be. The effect is that of two animal heads with open jaws holding the triangle in their mouths, but this may be coincidence. The buckle frame measures 37 mm parallel to the bar and originally perhaps 21 mm perpendicular to it. The dating of this buckle frame is difficult; a double-looped buckle frame with projecting bar ought to be late medieval or early post-medieval, but if the relief decoration is intended to represent animal heads it may be early post-Conquest. A broadly medieval/early post-med date seems safest. | 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: | 1066
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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