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Description: | A copper-alloy artefact, probably the sheet plates from a medieval composite buckle. Both sheet plates are worn, abraded and bent out of shape following old damage. The object features three rivet holes, two at the presumed attachement end and one at the buckle frame end. There are extant traces of rivets in the hole at the buckle end and in one of the holes at the attachment end on the upper plate. On the lower plate there are further traces of a rivet at the buckle frame end hole. While the lower plate is undecorated, the visible upper plate is decorated on the obverse with fine wrigglework. This consists of an outer border and a central logitudinal 'spine'. Running diagonally from this spine are linear diagonals of wrigglework, giving the impression of fronds or branches in vegetation. Such decoration seems to be characteristic of late medieval plates from composite buckles. Such buckles would also have featured a forked spacer plate and pin. | 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: | 1400
1450 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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