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Description: | Medieval copper alloy buckle plate with zoomorphic decoration. Only the front plate survives, It is trapezoid, narrowing from the attachment end to the buckle end where there are the remains of two tabs which would have gone over the buckle frame. There are circular rivet holes through the outer corners at the attachment end to fix it to the strap. The front has a recessed field with a raised design on it, formed by paring away the metal around the design. It shows a quadreped with very long neck and tail advancing right with its left foreleg raised (passant sinister); it has a small triangular ear, snout and open mouth and a plumed tail. It may be a mythical creature or an unusually long necked lion. There are traces of gilding on the front but none in the recessed area which may have originally been enamelled. The plate is 29.3mm long, 27.3mm wide and 1.3mm thick; it weighs 5.07 grams.It is part of a large group of similar decorated buckle plates dating to the 13th century (cf Egan and Pritchard 1993: 113, no.530 and NMS-3DF456 on this database).
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