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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy buckle plate, late 12th/13th century. Front plate only, broken across the fold. Rectangular plate with pin slot and recesses for the frame, two rivet holes at the attachment end. Relief moulded decoration, viewed with the fold to the left, of a central seated figure, probably a king, with right arm extended, and with a standing figure on either side, each with one hand on their hip and their other arm raised to the head of the king. Traces of gilding. Dark brown green patina. Length 24.1mm, width 17.5mm, thickness 1.6mm, weight 2.44g.See PAS record NMS-BE78A6 for another example of this type, from Breckland in Norfolk. That plate appears to have been enamelled.
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