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Description: | Medieval copper alloy buckle with composite plate. Oval frame with concave moulding flanked by a groove and rib in centre of outside edge and a transverse ridge on either side before the off-set, narrowed bar. Sheet pin with transverse ridge next to loop.Rectangular plate, folded widthways, recessed for frame, slot for pin. The backplate is broken and either mostly missing or originally much shorter than the front-plate, with one loop around the bar missing. A separate, flat, openwork mount with one central lozengiform aperture surounded by four sub-triangular apertures and with shallow transverse grooves around the edge is secured to the plate by a globular-headed rivet in each corner, three of which survive. There is a fifth, larger, central hole in the plate, framed by the central lozengiform aperture of the mount, now empty. 13th to 14th century. Buckle 20 x 33mm. Plate 30 x 30mm.For a similar but more elaborate example, see BH-715066. Reference: 'B1'.
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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