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Description: | A corroded, partial, small copper-alloy gilded buckle plate of medieval date (12th to 13th century AD). The surviving plate is sub-rectangular in form and would have been of folded sheet construction. The intact sides seem to incurve slightly. The upper surface is decorated with a raised lion passant guardant within a frame; the tail curves round on itself. The field in which this sits has been stippled using small punching and then gilded, the punching presumably to help reflect light. There are two perforations towards the corners of the attachment end; the rivets have been lost. There is a further hole between the forelegs of the lion and a break above its head where a possible fourth hole would have been. A parallel can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 111-112; ref. 500). It is feasible that this artefact was made in the later 12th century; the heraldic design is consistent with later Romanesque motifs. The metal is now red-brown, with areas of green bronze disease and some flecks of gilt.
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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