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Description: | Incomplete Middle / Late Saxon buckle frame, bent and broken oval with a large animal-head knop in the centre of the outside edge and at both ends of the broken narrowed pin-bar (one head missing). The surviving heads have prominant ears with deep concavities, grooves flanking a median ridge on the snout and deliniating pointed oval eyes. The face and chamfered outside edge are separated by a rib running along the angle, and are segmented by multiple transverse notches. Length 38mm. Surviving width 25mm. Thickness at frame 3mm. At head 5mm. A less elaborate and worn complete buckle frame with three animal heads was found in Ingworth (HER 21830). A complete buckle of similar type, with frame, pin and plate, excavated in Norwich (HER 373), is discussed by H. Geake (in Emery, P. EAA 120, 2007, 199, fig. 5.90 SF 102. Other frames have been found at Fishergate, York (Rogers 1993, 1348, fig. 650 no. 5314), Burgh Castle (HER 13227), Haveringland (HER 44066), Ingworth (HER 21830), Letheringsett with Glandford (HER 36814), Sandringham (HER 3257) and Whissonsett (HER 31879). 9th century.
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