|
Date: |
|
Description: | Cast copper alloy double-looped, sub-rectangular spectacle buckle frame used as a hat or knee buckle. The frame has a flat base and convex profile and has been drilled for a separate, central, recessed iron spindle. The tongue has broken off at its base where it is attached to the spindle and the plate of the chape is still attached, but the end has broken off so that it cannot be distinguished between an anchor or a stud chape. The sides of the frame are concave and each has a moulded hominoid face with lentoid eyes, nose and mouth at its apex. At either end of the spindle where it slots into the frame, there is a similar hominoid face with wings, in the form of an angel.
The frame is 39.2 mm long and 33 mm wide and 3.4 mm in thickness. The spindle is 31 mm long and 5 mm in diameter and the chape is 18.3 mm long and 14.4 mm wide.
Read (1995) illustrates a similar example on p.176, No.1180, which he dates to c.1720-1790. | 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: | 1720
1790 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
BUCKLE
Cast copper alloy double-looped, sub-rectangular…
-
BUCKLE
Cast copper alloy, double-looped, trapezium-shaped,…
-
BUCKLE
Cast copper alloy sub-rectangular shoe…
-
BUCKLE
Cast copper alloy two-piece trapezoidal…
-
BUCKLE
Incomplete cast copper alloy, double-looped,…
-
BUCKLE
Cast copper alloy, double-looped, trapezium-shaped,…
-
BUCKLE
Incomplete cast silver anchor chape…
-
BUCKLE
Incomplete cast copper alloy annular…
-
buckle
Incomplete cast copper alloy double-loop…
-
buckle
Cast copper alloy oval knee…
|