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Description: | A copper alloy buckle and buckle plate of early-Medieval date, AD 500 - 700. It has an oval frame of sub-square cross-section, and a folded buckle plate that tapers to a rounded attachment end and has a broad notch at the frame end to accommodate the pin. The pin itself is missing. There is a single, copper alloy rivet in the centre of the attachment end; this rivet remains in place. There is no decoration. The buckle plate has suffered some damage, one side being broken; this break appears to be patinated and is probably ancient. It is currently given extra support from adhesive tape. The buckle has a patchy, dark brown patina. It is 25.5mm long, 16.1mm wide and 5mm thick. It weighs 1.83gm.This type of buckle, attributed to the sixth and seventh centuries, is discussed and illustrated in Evans and Loveluck, 2009, Life and Economy at Early Medieval Flixborough AD600 - 1000, volume 2, pages 22 -23. Compare for example figure 1.9, number 119 and 121.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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