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Description: | Copper alloy buckle plate with gilt decoration probably dating to around 12th-13th century. The buckle plate is semi-circular and has three circular perforations for rivets set equidistant from each other; one has the rivet still intact. The rivet heads are raised and would have formed part of the decoration. Protruding from the straight edge of the plate there are two broken arms which form the remains of where the buckle frame would have been attached; it was probably attached through the loop created by the plate being folded back on itself. The front surface of the frame has remains of gilding; the decoration is divided into three triangular sections.
The find weighs 2.37g and measures 20.77mm in length, 23.65mm in width and 5.4mm in thickness. Examples of this type of buckle plate have been dated from the late Saxon to the Medieval period. A similar plain example (which is earlier in date) can be seen in Chris Marshall?s ?Buckles through the ages? Fig.4 Type IA, No.3. | 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: | 1100
1300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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