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Description: | A corroded and incomplete copper-alloy single-looped medieval buckle consisting of a cast frame and sheet plate. The frame is oval with a narrow and offset bar; the pin is missing. It has an expanded and angled outer edge which has moulded decoration in the form of an elongated S-shaped symbol with angled terminals. The sheet plate has been folded around the frame. It is recessed at the frame end to accommodate the frame and has a notched removal to take the (now missing) pin. The plate has two rivet holes at the attachment end; these only survive on the upper sheet with the end of the lower sheet lost to an old, ragged break. The upper surface of the upper sheet is decorated with a moulded wyvern that fills a recessed field within a border. The dragon stands left with head looking back over the shoulder. The tail curves round, following the edge of the field, terminating just before the neck below the head. In the recess of the curving tail is a trefoilate protrusion emerging from the tail with delineated fleurs. A similar treatment of space can be found on a buckle plate recorded on this database (ref. NMS-1F0824); many buckle plates recorded on this database depict wyverns. Other parts of the wyverns are delineated including the ears, eyes and mouth. The plain lower sheet has been distorted and bent as well as truncated. The artefact has an overall red-brown colour consistent with gilding although no traces of gilt are obvious. This is mostly overlaid by off-white and light-green corrosion product.
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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