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Description: | Early Saxon/Middle Saxon copper alloy belt fitting, counter-plate from belt set, Frankish-Type, cracked and distorted, cast trapezoidal with circular lobed shoulders and terminal (missing three domed studs) and vestigial projections to form a seating for the tongue of the corresponding (missing) buckle, 63 x 27mm. Iron corrosion in terminal lobe. Two longitudinally and one transversely aligned pierced lugs on reverse, and patches of iron corrosion. Engraved counter-relief decoration comprises medial field of tendril-like zoomorphic interlace within border of debased geometric key pattern. For broadly similar, although more accomplished, decoration on a buckle plate see MacGregor (1997) nos.77.39. Late 6th-7th-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: | 550
700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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