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Description: | A copper alloy buckle plate dating to the thirteenth century. In plan the buckle plate is in the shape of a bird or the letter 'M'. The wings and back of the bird have marginal rouletted decoration following the shape of the plate . Three pairs of horizontal rouletted decoration transverse the rectangular panel situated above the tail. Three triangular notches mark the slightly flared tail. A circular iron rivet, pierces each wing tip, and would have served to secure the buckle plate onto the leather strap.
The top of the buckle plate is rolled over and broken; it would originally have been wrapped around a buckle frame.
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 two recorded from Norfolk and Lincolnshire respectively on the Portable Antiquities Database as NMS-4D08E2 and LIN-5FFC92 . | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Philippa Walton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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