|
Date: |
|
Description: | Early Medieval cast copper alloy buckle with seperate buckle plate.The buckle frame is oval with a narrowed strap bar, and the frame has a sub-triangular cross section. It is attached to a seperate buckle plate cast in copper alloy, with two incomplete loops joining it to the frame. The upper surface of the plate has a raised rectangular section containing a white organic inlay (probably bone) with a cenral circular hole, presumably where an alternate material had been inlaid. The plate has two seperate rivets towards the frame end, and it terminates in three circular rivet holes - one of which is now damaged and incomplete - with two of the seperate rivets surviving. The rivets have a rectangular shaft and a globular head. The frame is 9.28mm longm 16.93mm wide. The plate is 23.97mm long, 8.96mm wide, 4.68mm thick. The rivets are 5.25mm long, 1.54mm in diameter increasing to 2.84mm a the head. The frame and plate weighs 3.53 grams.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
BUCKLE
Medieval copper alloy buckle with…
-
BUCKLE
Medieval cast copper alloy single…
-
Buckle
Medieval cast copper alloy single…
-
BUCKLE
Medieval cast copper alloy single…
-
buckle
Two medieval copper alloy rectangular…
-
BUCKLE
Two medieval copper alloy rectangular…
-
BUCKLE
Two medieval copper alloy rectangular…
-
BUCKLE
A Medieval copper-alloy buckle plate.The…
-
BUCKLE
An incomplete gilded copper alloy…
-
BUCKLE
An incomplete copper-alloy single-loop buckle…
|