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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy medieval buckle frame, missing its pin and iron axis bar around which the plate probably fitted. It is basically D-shaped, the outer edge thickening and extending into a triangular knop with a large triangular notch for the pin. Opposite, there is a 3x2mm gap in the 4mm high straight edge, presumably where the pin wrapped round. Projecting backwards from here are two arms which would have held the axis bar (both retain traces of iron corrosion). The traingular knop on the outer edge is adorned with two transverse mouldings either side of the notch, which possibly represent ears - the knop has a rather zoomorphic feel to it. The area either side of the notch in the opposite edge is decorated with tiny circular punches. This buckle is quite strange in a number of ways. The triangular knop is rounded, thicker than the frame at 3.5mm, and purposefully bends upwards - perhaps it was intended for use the other way up? ie. so the decorated side was not on display. The frame is 1.5mm thick while the bar around which the pin is wrapped is 4mm thick (though only 2mm wide) suggesting some 'heavy' kind of fixing. Measures 25x20mm. Weighs 3.26g. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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