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Description: | An incompete and worn cast copper-alloy buckle plate of late Early-Medieval to Medieval date. It is rectangular in form, missing parts of the frame end and now in two joining fragments due to old breaks. The plate has rectangular frame recesses and pin slot, with embossed and openwork decoration at the centre of he front face. This comprises a raised central rectangle within a rectangular border, with concave back face and containing what appears to be zoomorphic moulded decoration, the precise form uncertain due to wear and damage. Surrounding and within the zoomorphic decoration are a series of seven openwork circles. At the attachment end there are two circular rivet holes, one now incompete due to old breaks, the other retaining a separately cast copper-alloy rivet with globular head. The entire object measures 25.87mm in surviving length (slightly bent due to post-depositional damage), 18.86mm in width, 3.14mm in thickness, and 2.65g in weight.This is an incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle plate. The openwork and zoomorphic decoration is suggestve of a date range in the later phases of the Early-Medieval period and into the Medieval period, perhaps c.11th-12th centuries AD in date.
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