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Description: | A complete copper-alloy buckle with an in situ complete copper-alloy pin. The frame is triangular in shape with a small roughly rectangular shaped zoomorphic head projecting from each corner. It measures 27.3mm by 23mm in size externally and each arm of the frame is 2mm in width. It is triangular in cross-section with a flat back face and projecting front face.
There is a central constriction in the middle of one edge of the frame and attached to this is a copper-alloy pin, attached via an open loop. The pin tapers to a point and the groove between the ears of one of the zoomorphic terminals acts as a pin rest opposite the pin constriction. The pin measures 17mm in length and c2mm in width.
Each zoomorphic head measures 7.5mm in length, 4mm in width and 2.5mm in thickness and resembles a bat or mouse. The back face of the heads is flat and the front face rounded with two tiny ears at each corner and the rest of the head projecting out from the frames corner. Each head has a brow, a central ridge representing the snout, which is slightly upturned at its tip and two parallel circular indentations representing eyes.
No parallel could be found for this buckle but the style of the animal head terminals implies that it is most likely to be Viking Age or possibly early medieval, circa 1000-1200 in date. | 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: | 1000
1200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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