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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame with zoomorphic decoration. The frame is oval with a narrowed and offset strap bar flanked by knop terminals formed by incised lines dividing the terminals from the main loop. The sides are animal bodies which widen and thicken slightly towards the thickened heads. The sides (bodies) are trapezoid in section with a wider back and rocker arm decoration on the front and inner side. The heads are crudely moulded with brow ridge and open snout but no other features. The heads flank the central pin rest on the outer side which is thinner than the heads (similar to the sides of the frame) and formed of a bar as wide as the rest of the frame with a thin, integral, expansion on top. The expansion is D-shaped in plan and has mul;tiple transverse incised lines, possible decoration or damage. It is 20.7mm long, 18.4mm wide and 5.4mm thick; it weighsAlthough not paralleled in the usual sources the form is similar to other medieval buckles with oval loops and offset strap bars, cf Egan (2007:88) who dates this form to the later 13th - early 14th century. Buckles of a similar form but with the animal heads biting the strap bar rather than the pin rest are also known and crude zoomorphic decoration is common on many strap fittings of this period.
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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