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Description: | A copper-alloy buckle frame of probable Medieval date. It has an oval frame with offset and narrowed bar, and expanded outer edge. The outer edge has a central bead shaped pin rest, either side of which are projecting crescent shaped mouldings. Slight raised collars are visible at the sides of the frame next to the crescentic mouldings. Hinging around the bar are the remains of a sheet copper-alloy buckle plate. This is rectangular in form with lower plate that is narrower and shorter than the upper plate, rectangular frame recesses and pin slot. Approximately one quarter of he plate is missing due to old breaks. The plates are held together by two central cylindrical rivets with flattened round heads. On the front face of the upper plate there is extensive punched decoration. This comprises a border formed from a double band of punched triangles, with a similar band of decoration separating the plate into two rectangular halves. Each half has the remains of three semi-circular motifs formed, each formed from a double band of punched triangles.The entire object measures 28.21mm in width (at frame), 30.68mm in length (including plate, 15.47mm at frame), 3.10mm in thickness and 4.03g in weight.This is an incomplete buckle of probable Medieval date. No close parallel in terms of the frame, which shares some similarities with earlier, Late Roman military frames, has as yet been identified. The decorative elements on the plate perhaps point to a date range in the Medieval rather than earlier periods, although an earlier date from the Roman period onwards cannot be ruled out entirely.
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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