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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy buckle frame of probable Medieval date. It is missing the bar and pin due to old breaks and has been partially flattened due to post-depositional damage. The frame is D-shaped in form with flat and expanded outer edge set at an angle of approximately 45 degrees. At the bar end the sides narrow to slight projecting knops indicative of an offset and narrowed bar that is now missing due to old breaks. The front face of the frame has moulded decoration comprising a central V-shaped pin rest with large moulded V-shaped border. To either side of the pin rest are linear borders that create triangular panels that extend along the sides towards the bar. These are very worn but appear to contain linear and pelleted/punched dot motifs, their precise form uncertain due to post-depositional wear and perhaps simply geometric in form. Tiny traces of possible gilding are visible at the inner edge of the frame. It measures 22.59mm in width (in current folded state), 18.49mm in length, 12.32mm in thickness (folded), and 1.85g in weight. This is an incomplete buckle frame of probable Medieval date. It is similar in form to an example from Winchester (Biddle, 1990: no. 1175) that is dated to the 14th or 15th centuries AD. A similar date range might be suggested for the current example, although the decorative elements might equally indicate a slightly earlier date perhaps into the 13th or 12th centuries 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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