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Description: | Mostly complete medieval copper alloy buckle with plate. This buckle has an oval frame with a narrowed offset bar with a semicircular section. i.e it has a flat underneath with slightly domed top. It is 30.86mm long and 14.3mm wide and weighs 6.20g. At the front of the frame is a lip with a moulded notch for the pin, otherwise the frame is plain. The pin is complete measuring 19.48mm long and 4.48mm wide. It is plain except for a moulded raised line at the base of the pin. It is simply curled around the offset bar. The plate for the buckle is formed from a sheet of copper alloy that is folded around the off set bar. It is recessed to fit the frame with a slot for the pin. There are two rivet holes to the front of the plate and two to the rear, but no rivets survive. The reverse of the plate is plain, but the front is decorated. The design is an incised rectangular box, divided into three sections. To either side of the lines of the rectangle are punched dots following the same lines, which also extend up to the recessed arms of the plate that fold around the frame. In the central section of the rectangle is a punched dot design of an hourglass shape. The patina of the object is an even dark green, with some light green flashes on the edges of the frame and plate. It survives in good condition and dates to between the 12th and 14th centuries. Examples can be found in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories, page 77, figure 46. | 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
1399 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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