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Description: | An incomplete gilt copper-alloy plate of Medieval date.The plate is damaged at one end, the remaining portion being roughly rectangular. The heavily gilt upper surface bears an indeterminate pattern composed of double lines of punched triangles. Such lines also form a perimeter border. Located centrally, a short distance in from the intact end, there is a circular rivet hole; part of a second such perforation also exists at the damaged end.Dimensions: 37.2mm long, 17mm wide, 1.5mm thick. Weight: 5.88g.Buckles bearing similar punched triangle decoration were found in excavations in London, in layers dating from between the early to mid 13th century and the late 14th/early 15th century (see Egan and Pritchard 1991: 111-114, nos. 502, 514, 533 and 535). The use of gilding is also consistent with this suggested dating. The thickness of this piece suggests this is may be a casket mount (cf Egan 1998: fig. 51) rather than a buckle plate.
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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