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Description: | Copper alloy buckle frame, pin and plate. In plan the buckle plate is in the shape of a bird or the letter 'M'. The wings and back of the bird have a rouletted decoration of opposing triangles. Two pairs of opposing triangles transverse the rectangular panel situated above the tail. Four grooves mark the slightly flared tail. A copper alloy rivet, circa 5mm long, pierces each wing tip, and would have served to secure the buckle plate onto the leather strap. Each end of the rivets are expanded and still retain a small square plate that would have made the hold on the leather stronger. The top of the buckle plate is rolled over the trapezoidal buckle frame. The pin has lost its tip, and the rest of it loops over the centre of the buckle frame bar, acting as the only mechanism holding the frame and plate together. Although the style of decoration on the body of the object suggests that it represents a bird, the buckle plate might also have been deliberately cut into the shape of the letter 'M'. This might be in devotion to the Virgin Mary, whose cult became more popular in the 13th century. Other parallels to this buckle have been found in an unstratified context at Kings Lynn, Norfolk (Clarke & Carter, 1977, p288, no. 6), and another recorded from Norfolk on the Portable Antiquities Database as NMS-4D08E2 . | 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: | 1200
1299 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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