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Description: | Medieval copper alloy sheet plate from a composite buckle. The remaining piece is broadly rectangular with a slightly concave attachment end, straight sides and a straight, although bent backwards end which would have been closest to the buckle loop. At the concave attachment end there is a separate copper alloy circular sectioned rivet through a hole in each corner. The rivets are burred over almost level with the front but project from the back. Between the rivets, in the centre of this end, is a circular cut out with a deep groove extending from it a short way down the plate.On the front of the plate is an incised design which appears to be of a four petalled flower between a border of plain lines running down parallel to each edge. The flower has a stem starting at the centre of the attachment end and running about half way down the plate. The petals are large lozenges, two runing between the top of the stem and the buckle loop end, two parallel to the stem. Each is decorated with two shorter incised lines. At the base of the stem, by the attachment end stem there are pointed oval leaves, one each side, each filled with rocker arm decoration. The back is plain.The plate is 43.9mm by 23.5mm by 1.2mm thick excluding the rivets, 3.6 including, and weighs 6.96 grams.Egan and Pritchard (1991:78-82) illustrate a range of similar examples including no. 330 with rocker arm decoration on the plate and 322-325 all with similar cutouts at the attachment end. They date this form to the mid-14th to early 15th century and suggest the apperture and angled groove at the attachment end indicated the quality of the piece and the presense of forked spacers, which were invisible when the buckle was complete. SOM-FDA2A1 on this database is a similar, more complete, example.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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