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Description: | Part of a buckle-frame of Viking Age (probably), with a zoomorphic detail of an animal head in the middle of the arc of the fore-edge of the frame. The metal of the frame is 5mm wide by 2mm thick, and is set in a plane angled to the flat. The ears of the snimal head project back across this D-frame's width, and the tapering snout projects by 8mm, tapering from 11 to 4mm. The pin-bar, which probably had two additional animal-head terminals facing back, away from the front edge, is broken off and the surviving part of the D-frame is bent out of shape. The recess between the ears of the surviving animal head represents the slot for the 'fall' of the buckle's pin. The ears themselves are dimpled. A closely similar but more complete example found in the north-east of this county (Suffolk), at Mendham, shows that the buckle was probably attached to the belt by means of an additional plate wrapped around the pin-bar and cut in at the outer edges to accommodate the frame, see SF-76F478. A similar frame from Old Sarum is illustrated by Cuddeford, p.16 no 15. | 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: | 900
1150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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