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Description: | Gilt copper alloy buckle with frame of unusual form: ovoid or D-shaped with offset narrowed bar, twin flanges on both sides, large globular boss in centre of outside edge, and extensions of the sides beyond the outside edge in the form of stylised animal heads, one of which is missing. Tapering D-section pin with transverse rib near loop. 27 x 30mm. Cf. a rather more elaborate example in the Bargello Museum in Florence, dated by Fingerlin (1971, 343, Kat. Nr. 76, Abb. 24) to the second half of the 13th century.
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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