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Description: | Early to mid Saxon copper alloy buckle, oval frame with integral triangular openwork plate (69 x 36mm), facetted on face. The bar dividing plate and frame is slightly and rather crudely narrowed for the missing pin and is flanked on both sides by a serrated projection formed from small co-joined lobes, three on one side, four on the other. The frame is pierced at both serrated projections by a rivet-hole, one of which retains its copper alloy rivet. There is a further rivet-hole with surviving copper alloy rivet in the circular terminal lobe of the plate, the rivet burred-over to hold a thickness of 3mm.
Although buckles with oval frames and integral plates have a wide distribution in the seventh century, the openwork frame is perhaps more unusual and this example could have a continental origin, cf. MacGregor (1997) 240, no.122.1. | 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: | 410
899 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Erica Darch | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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