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Description: | Probably a buckle plate, cast in copper alloy. It retains some of its original gilding. The plate is rectangular, with a decorative zoomorphic head projecting from one of the shorter sides. The plate has a rivet through the middle. The plate has an incised curving decoration. The almost flat zoomorphic head has a snout and two ears. The reverse of the artefact has gilding only on the head. The gilding on the obverse is covered with hairline cracks. This buckle plate of course formed part of a buckle of which the frame, pin, bar and reverse plate are now lost. This artefact, like a number of other similar plates, has broken at one end, where it would wrap around the pin bar, suggesting that this was a weak point on these buckles. It dates to the 13th- 14th centuries. A similar (but complete) example of this type of buckle plate (with buckle) can be seen on finds record SUSS-199567. | 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
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Dom Andrews | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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