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Description: | A copper-alloy incomplete Medieval buckle frame. The frame was constructed by folding a long narrow strip of copper alloy in half, leaving a slight gap at the fold. The frame is rectangular, it tapers from a surviving width of 17.5mm at the hinge to 14.95mm at the other end, now broken. All the edges appear to be broken, but it is possible to discern fragmentary frame recesses, either square notches or oblique angles. The upper plate is decorated with a border of rouletted decoration of back-to-back triangles. The border runs along each long edge and across the hinged end, but is missing at the broken end. Another line of rouletting divides the surviving length into two squares, each of which is filled with a large ring-and-dot motif made up of two concentric circles around a central dot. These appear to have been compass-drawn. The motif furthest from the hinged end has had its outer circle cut through by a separate copper-alloy rivet; a second copper-alloy rivet is opposite, both with well-concealed circular heads. The other ring-and-dot motif is cut through by a larger circular hole, probably a pin hole, which is now blocked by iron corrosion, probably from the pin. The underplate is broken away and is now shorter than the upper plate; it does not reach the rivets which presumably originally fixed the plates together. The buckle plate contains a number of aspects which are associated with the Medieval period, the rivets are well concealed. The buckle is unsual due to the pin hole, which is usually found on buckles with an integral frame, for example spur buckles, examples are included in Egan; 1991 no's 514, 516 and 520.The plate is 28.55mm in width, 17.3 mm in length, 4.1mm thick and weighs 3.7 grams
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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