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Description: | Medieval copper alloy trapezoidal buckle frame. The bar is narrowed and in the centre of the angled outside edge an enormous moulded knop is in the form of a crowned head with four small rounded apertures in the crown. The shoulders are emphasised by a rib at both ends of the edge. The adjacent parts of the sides are decorated with three chevrons (an inverted version of the British army sergeant's insignia). These are partly obscured by corrosion products. Where such frames are associated with plates they are normally clasps rather than buckle. However, in these examples the crowned bust takes up the full width of the outside edge. In this piece it does not, and the frame is, discounting the head, shorter than it is wide, unlike the clasps which are elongated (e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 119-20, fig. 78 no. 568). Frames of similar proportions to the present example include pieces from Nottinghamshire (DENO-1CFB90) and Lincolnshire (LIN-84F392). 14th century Finder's no. DWP 41
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