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Description: | Medieval copper alloy buckle plate, probably of 13th or 14th century dateThe buckle plate is near complete, although the buckle frame and pin are missing. The plate has a length of 21.88mm, a width of 18.04mm and has a weight of 3.8g. The buckle plate is folded with a slot for the pin and a recess for the frame. The rear of the folded plate is narrower than the face, with a width of 14.59mm. The face is decorated with a rocker-arm or zigzag border, outside a square panel defined by incised lines. On the interior of the panel is an incised spiral. The incised square and spiral contain remnants of a white in-filled deposit. The buckle plate was attached by means of two separate protruding dome-headed rivets (2.7mm diameter) positioned near the attachment end and are still in place. The buckle plate has poor surface preservation with a dark green patina, elsewhere the surface is pale green and brown. The buckle plate can be closely paralleled with a longer, double spiralled example recorded from a 13th or 14th century deposit from Bishopgate, Norwich (Margeson, 1993, p 28, fig. 13.134) . The Norwich example was gilded and also has white infill within the spiral, suggested to be enamel. Margeson (ibid, p24) suggests the Bishopgate example may have been made in the workshops around Limoges, France.
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