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Description: | An incomplete sheet copper alloy buckle plate of Medieval date (AD 1066 ? AD 1500). Length 26.0mm, width 24.0mm and 3.8mm thick. Weight 5.41g.
The piece is the attachment end of a separate buckle plate that would have folded around the bar of a buckle. In plan, it has a straight plain end and the sides taper inwards slightly towards a transverse break which may have occurred fairly recently. At the attachment end the width is 24.0mm and at the break it is 21.0mm wide. At each corner of the attachment end there is a copper alloy rivet. At the front the rivets have sub-spheroidal heads and at the rear the ends of the rivets are flush with the surface of the back plate. Around each rivet, between the plates, some dark brown organic material has survived and appears to be the remains of a leather strap or belt. The thickness of the buckle plate at the attachment end, including the organic material, is 3.8mm. The front face has punched decoration of four longitudinally orientated lines forming three panels. The central panel and one of the outer panels are of roughly equal width, about 5.0mm. The other outer panel is about 6.0mm in width. The inside of each outer panel is punched with short oblique lines that form a broadly zigzag pattern. All the punched decoration has been executed using an implement that has created lines with a ?jagged? appearance. The rear face is plain and undecorated.
The piece is largely in good condition and has a shiny mid-green patina. However, there are patches of superficial corrosion, particularly on the rear face. | 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: | 1066
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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