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Description: | Fragment of flat circular frame with a short decorated projection. The frame is 36 mm in diameter, 4 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick, with edges a little more rounded on one face than the other. Nearly half of it survives, and the breaks are old and worn. The projection is 6 mm wide at the most, and 13.5 mm long (9.5 mm long if the 4 mm width of the frame is discounted). It tapers and is decorated on one face with a clear chevron moulding and perhaps two dots; it may have been intended to represent an animal head. The other face is flat and has filemarks. There are three obvious possibilities for this object; a late Anglo-Saxon buckle, a spacer from a 14th-century composite strap-end, and a medieval annular brooch. All are possible, but there are arguments against all three. An annular brooch may well have such a projection, but it would be more likely to have a groove for the pin rest than animal-head decoration. A spacer for a composite strap-end would be symmetrical, with sharp corners on both faces, and the projecting knop would be decorated on both faces. The head looks more medieval than Anglo-Saxon, and the frame is rather too flat for a buckle (the least likely option). | 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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