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Description: | Medieval copper alloy buckle plate with grooved decoration in the form of C-shaped punches. It measures 48.7x15mm and at the open end is open 1.7mm.
Both front and back plate are intact, and held together with two spherical-headed rivets 3-4mm in diameter.
The open end is slightly concave. The decoration is of a possibly mythical beast with spotted body and either two heads or a forked tail-end. This tail area is filled with diagonal lines. Two legs extend to one long edge. Both long edges are flanked by a deep groove.
Weighs 5.70g. 14th/ 15th century.
Cf. WILT-4B0097 from Tetsworth, Oxfordshire which is decorated in a similar style with a similar animal. | 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: | 1301
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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