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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy 11th-12th century buckle frame, consisting of about half of the outside edge and missing the axis bar. It is 21mm long and 16mm wide (estimated original width 32mm, axis bar c.12mm). It weighs 4.70g. At the break, the outside edge is 11mm wide and sloping downwards and outwards. At the corner where it turns towards the join with the axis bar, it is 10mm wide, narrowing to 5mm at the join. This area is occupied with a two-dimensional beast, rather lizard like, apparantly emerging from the buckle sideways-on. The face is fully in the round with a wide mouth, little ears at the side of the head and three ring-and-dot - two of which are eyes while the other is at the top of the head. The body is below this, which we see only half of. One back leg has a series of punches around it, emphasising its shape. The front leg is rather smaller and less obvious. The tail extends from the body around onto the narrower strip of edge and bifurcates - both ends curl around and that furthest from the body has three leaves at its end. The other reaches a point. At the point of separation, there is a rough patch extending upwards, possibly just a knop, or possibly with something a-top it that has now broken off. Behind the leaf-like tail-end is a triangular knop, placed at the end of the axis bar against a D-shaped terminal. The axis bar joins the other side of this and is 1mm in diameter. It seems likely this would have been part of a Limoges buckle frame and plate (Cf English Romanesque Art 1066-1200, 1984, p.255 no.256). Fingerlin (1971) suggests frames with outer edges sloping downwards and outwards are 11th-12th century. | 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: | 1001
1200 | 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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