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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle plate of Medieval date. It is missing one edge of the plate, frame and pin due to old breaks. The plate is in the shape of a bird or the letter M, folded at the frame end to produce a smaller rectangular back plate with rectangular pin slot. One one edge the surviving panel/wing of the plate curves outwards, before tapering back towards the centre of the attachment end, missing its tip due to old breaks. The central panel is separated from the 'wings' by keyhole shaped openwork decoration, and is rectangular in form with a flaring triangular terminal end. The front face of the central panel has decoration comprising multiple vertical grooves on the terminal, giving the impression of a tail. With the exception of a transverse double band of punched opposing triangles at the frame end of the plate, any other decorative elements are obscured due to the proservation of the object. It measures 39.99mm in length, 33.91mm in width (incomplete), 2.15mm in thickness (at attachment end, 8.10mm at frame end), and 12.16g in weight.This is an incomplete buckle of Medieval date and finds parallels in a number of near identical examples recorded through the PAS (e.g. SF-5FF3F5, SF-7998A5,SF-D33C97, SF-7AA971, NMS-47B287, NMS-06B576, NMS-B24B0C, NMS-11EF31, NMS-4D08E2, LIN-5FFC92, YOYRM-1DAF12, and NCL-BAB662; see also an unstratified example from Kings Lynn, Norfolk:Clarke & Carter, 1977, p288, no. 6).When complete the centre of the plate would have formed the body of the bird, with head and wings extending upwards and to the sides to produce the M-shaped buckle plate, and it has been suggested that this may represent association to the Virgin Mary. These examples are typically dated to the 12th or 13th centuries, c.1100-1300AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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