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Description: | Copper-alloy buckle frame, with single triangular loop. The bar is circular in cross-section, and at either end perpendicular to the bar are zoomorphic terminals. At the apex of the loop there is also a similar zoomorphic terminal. The frame is trapezoidal in section and is angled at 45°, sloping inwards. On the upper surface there are incised lines across the frame. The frame has been distorted and one corner is bent.A number of similar buckle frames have been found in Suffolk, from Orford (SF7560), Nacton (SF-9F02E3), Claydon (SF-79DAF8) and Mendham (SF-76F478). The Mendham example was attached to the belt by means of an additional plate wrapped around the pin-bar and cut in at the outer edges to accommodate the frame. Other examples on the PAS database include NMS-9B0AC7, CORN-EC5F13 and an interesting pair of rectangular variants, HAMP-BA9FC0 and LVPL-99FBD2 (the latter also found in Suffolk).A similar buckle frame from Old Sarum, although not from a dated context, is in the Ashmolean Museum (Hinton 1974, no. 32) and is also illustrated by Cuddeford (1996, p. 16, no. 15). They are dated on art-historical grounds to the 9th to 11th centuries.
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