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Description: | A corroded fragment from a cast copper-alloy medieval 'locking buckle': the U-shaped arm attached to the pin bar. Around the pin bar the separate 'pin-chape' survives around it in its entirety. The latter is formed of a cast rectangular element of teardrop shaped cross-section, pierced all the way through for the pin bar, with integral protruding and tapering triangular pin. The curved locking arm survives in its entirety; it has a lozengiform cross-section. It terminates in a 'knurled' globular knop, that is, one with moulded diagonal ridges. The knop has been bent out of its original alignment, towards the pin bar. Such buckles are well attested in the literature; recent published examples can be found illustrated in Egan (2005, 37-38; refs. 116, 117), which includes a reconstruction drawing. This fragment is corroded, with a dusty off-white and light-green corrosion product over red-brown metal.
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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