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Description: | A corroded and broken medieval buckle frame, decorated in a Romanesque or slightly later style (12/13th century AD). It has a broad angled outer edge featuring two confronted creatures moulded in high relief. The creatures, possibly dogs, have two legs visible and curled round tails, in one and a half loops; the tails fill the areas between the animal's body and the side of the outer edge. They sit upright and facing with their heads projecting above the top edge, creating a pin rest between them. The ends of the pin bar are moulded and the bar itself narrowed and recessed. The pin bar has been broken at both ends and both mouldings bent outwards. The bar has been truncated just beyond one of the mouldings while the element attached to the other one has been bent back on itself in an S shape. A similar buckle can be found on this database - ref. NMS-9BBAE2. This buckle is largely covered in light-green and off-white corrosion product over a 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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