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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy buckle frame of early-medieval date. The buckle is D-shaped in plan and circular in section with a narrowed strap bar. The outer edge of the frame is wide, domed and undecorated with no recess for the pin and terminates in animal heads confronted across the strap bar. A common feature in buckles of this period these zoomorphic terminals are intended to represent some sort of quadruped's head, such as a lion or leopard.Part of the sheet metal plate survives looped around the strap bar and is rectangular in plan. A fragment of the pin also remains around the strap bar. The metal is a mid greenish-brown colour and is worn. The buckle is 22.3mm long, 19.3mm wide, 5.2mm thick and weighs 5.9g.Similar examples can be seen in Hawkes, fig.20, e-f.
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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