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Description: | Copper alloy buckle part or pendant. Slightly bent lower part and much of the front obscured by corrosion. A pierced lug for suspension/attachment is set at 90 degrees to the main part. The main plate is slightly concave at the back which is undecorated. It is based on a rounded triangular shape, with the centre cut out but leaving two prongs pointing inwards from the end bar - which resembles the fittings for attaching straps to double loop shoe buckles in the post-medieval period (but these have broader paired loops at the buckle attachment end). Broader areas to the sides with curved edges are decorated with paired lines of small (1mm) punched triangles; these follow the line of the inside cut-out (and extend along the narrow part of the frame) and three curve across the broader area. The decoration suggests a medieval date but no close parallel yet identified - the form could be either part of a complex buckle/strap fitting or a harness pendant? | 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 | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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