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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy medieval buckle plate. This fragment represents the incomplete front plate of a folded buckle plate. Only the middle and rear portion survive, so there is no trace of the recessing for the pin bar or the pin slot. The rear plate is entirely missing. The front plate was once rectangular in plan. It was cast with the raised moulding of a beast, probably a lion, advancing left and looking back over its shoulder. The head and front legs of the animal are now missing. The plate is openwork so that subcircular perforations divide the legs. The plate is damaged so that the figure of the animal is almost free standing. Only a portion of the rear of the plate frame survives to the rear of the animal, with one rivet hole in the bottom right corner. The rivet is missing. The rear of the plate is flat and plain. The object has a surviving length of 21.62mm, is 17.86mm wide, is 3.4mm thick and weighs 4.24g. Similar plates with lions can be seen in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories, London: HMSO, figure 72. Following these examples, this buckle plate probably dates to the 13th or 14th 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: | 1200
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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