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Description: | Cast copper alloy buckle with integral box chape length 33mm, width 38mm, thickness 2mm, weight 7.25g. The frame of the buckle is a tapoizoid shape that has slightly concave sides with a semicircular projection in the centre which is decorated with four roundels. The forward edge has a inwards facing V-shaped notch that is filled with a triangular protrusion on the forward edge that is decorated with a foliate pattern. There would have been a box chape on there attachment end, but this is now truncated.Similar examples are recorded in the London Museum Medieval Catalogue (Ward Perkins, 1960, 268-270). This example is a strapend with Saint Christopher in the centre of the trapezoid section. Ward-Perkins dated this example to 1390-1410 basing this date on examples found on contemporary brasses (Ward Perkins, 1960, 268). The M on the box chape is also present on these examples, so it is possible that this has some religious connotations and may pay some reference to The Virgin Mary, although this is supposition.
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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