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Description: | Copper-alloy rectangular buckle plate, with pin slot and frame recesses. It is made from a single sheet of metal folded in half; the upper plate has repoussé and punched decoration. The main motif is a repoussé bird. The bird has two legs, a rounded body covered with shallow dimples, a wing with engraved lines representing feathers, and a head which appears human-like and looks back towards the wing. The background is decorated with horizontal lines of roughly triangular punch-marks or rouletting. There are two copper-alloy rivets joining the two plates together, both just beyond the hinge loops rather than in the outer corners, which would be more usual. One, next to the head, is quite large (4 mm in diameter); the other is enormous (8 mm in diameter) and obscures one foot. It is presumably a replacement. The buckle plate is now a little bent and distorted and some of the upper plate (with the tail of the bird) is missing. There is quite a lot of iron corrosion obscuring the decoration; this may have come from an iron frame or pin.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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