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Description: | A complete copper alloy Early Medieval rectangular buckle, dated to the 9th to 11th centuries AD. The buckle consists of a rectangular single frame with thickened laterally protruding knops at each corner. The knops are zoomorphic in form, each with incised parallel lines along their length and two drilled dots with a groove between them towards the inside edge, resembling an animal head. The upper and lower sections of the frame between these knops are decorated with incised lines, suggestive of scales. There is a pin rest in a slight hollow within a small thickened section on the opposite side of the buckle frame. The pin is now missing. The reverse of the frame is flat and undecorated.It is 31 mm across the mid point and 28 mm across the front of the 'snouts'. It is 32 mm long from the end of one snout to the end of the other on the same side. The measurement of the inside of the gap from bar to pin rest is 15 mm. It weighs 12.2g.Very similar examples can be seen on the database: HAMP-BA9FC0, YORYM-0451D4, SUSS-438A54 and LVPL-99FBD2. Zoomorphic buckles of this type are more commonly found in D-shaped form, dated on art-historical grounds from the 9th to 11th centuries.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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