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Description: | Fragment of Medieval buckle plate or harness mount, broken and corroded, comprising plate with no surviving original edge, pierced by two rivet holes, >21 x >28mm. Enamelled decorated with Gules a triple-towered castle [Or/Argent] within remains of stamped outward-pointing triangles or ?rays? containing traces of red enamel. The arms are possibly abstracted from the arms of Castile and Leon (Castile: Gules a castle Or). They may refer to the alliance by marriage between Eleanor of Castile and Edward I, in 1254. Eleanor died in 1290. Cf. Arms of Castile on a harness mount in Ashley (2002) fig.19, no.179 and a buckle plate from Grimston (?marginal) with similar surrounding triangular motif. 13th?14th 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: | 1200
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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