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Description: | A worn, cast copper-alloy buckle pin or tongue of Anglo-Saxon date. It comprises a flat plate that is rectangular in section with a curved outer edge, three projecting knops at the base and a single projecting knop at the top. From the inner edge extends the integrally cast pin, which is triangular in form, rectangular in section and tapers to a pointed and curved tip. The front face of the plate has incised and gilded decoration comprising a single line border around the outer and upper edges with what appears to be an oval shaped eye with central circular pellet at the top corner of the plate. Extending from the border to the three knops at the base of the plate are two further incised/punched diagonal grooves, with a double vertical groove at juncture of plate and pin. The overall appearance is zoomorphic, possibly intended to represent the head of a bird or similar creature, the front face of the plate covered with thick gilding. The back face of the plate is worn and undecorated. Both it and both faces of the pin may originally have been gilded but their very worn and corroded surfaces have lost any trace of decoration due to post-depositional wear. At the cente of the back face of the plate is an integrally cast coper-alloy rivet or lug, whcih is cylindrical in form and has a slightly flattened oval shaped head. The entire object measures 18.25mm in length, 8.91mm in width, 2.46mm in thickness (8.46mm including rivet) and weighs 1.19g.This is a buckle tongue or pin of Anglo-Saxon date. It is similar in form and function to typical 'fiddle' or shield shaped buckle tongues, although differs in the asymmetrical zoomorphic nature of the plate, for which no close paralle has as yet been identified. Its decoration and form are indicative of an early Anglo-Saxon date, probably in the 5th-6th centuries AD, c.450-600 AD.
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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