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Description: | A gilt copper-alloy buckle plate, probably from a single-loop buckle. No exact parallel could be found for this piece, but excavations in London suggest that the fashion for ornate buckles plates and frames probably lasted from the late 12th to late 14th centuries (G. Egan and F. Pritchard; 1991; pp. 76).
The object is now severely damaged and bent. The upper plate is largely inact, missing only a small portion at the proximal (attachment) end; only a small part of the back plate survives. The upper plate is rectangular, measures 16mm high and would originally have been approximately 40mm long. The upper surface of the upper plate has, at the frame end, a double-incised, horizontally-aligned shield; the point of this shield extends into a triple-stranded line, which then angles outwards towards the two proximal corners. At the centre of the distal end is a slot for the now-missing pin and the fold in the plate would have originally held the buckle frame in place. At each end of the upper plate is a rivet hole (the one at the proximal end being incomplete), the function of which would have been to secure the plate to a leather strap. The upper surface of the buckle is heavily gilt. It in current state, the artefact measures 24.7mm long and weighs 5.23g. | 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: | 1175
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Julian Watters | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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