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Description: | Very nice gilded copper-alloy buckle plate. It is basically 25 mm square, but most of one side has been cut away to form two short hinge loops at which the plate is broken. The panel left for decoration is therefore rectangular, and has a rivet hole at each corner. The decoration is very corroded, and it is hard to see whether it was originally relief or engraved. It consists of a border around two back-to-back C shapes; the space between the ends of the Cs is expanded into each one's centre to form a shell motif. In the spaces between the two Cs, at the bottom of the pin slot and in the centre of the attachment edge, are two more shell motifs. The decoration is finely worked. The shell is a common motif which originally represented St James of Compostela, or pilgrimage in general. | 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
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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