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Description: | A cast copper alloy single looped oval buckle. A search through the normal literature found no parallel for this buckle, but stylistically it appears to date from the late Anglo-Saxon to early medieval period (circa 850 - 1100 AD).
The buckle has a thin but tall oval frame. On opposite sides of the frame are two zoomorphic heads. The heads appears to be snakes heads. They extend outwards from the edge of the frame before curling back over themselves. The snake?s noses just about match the interior edge of the frame. The heads are decorated. A series of radiating lines decorate the head of the creatures, whilst a line has been drawn across their noses. Each snake has two eyes on the sides of their heads.
The reverse of the buckle is undecorated, but two recesses survive. These recesses have been positioned on the opposite axis to the heads. Therefore the recesses are at a 12 and 6 o?clock position, with the heads at 3 and 9 o?clock. These recesses would have presumably held the strap bar. The strap bar and the pin are both now missing.
The metal is a dark yellowish-green colour, but the buckle has been coated in a lacquer. | 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: | 850
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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