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Description: | Copper alloy buckle plate. Cast plate of trefoil form and of 0.9mm thickness with three dome headed rivets to attach plate to strap, and a slot for the pin [which is lost, as is the frame]. An intact and in situ rivet has a head of diameter 9.2mm and a rivet [including head] c.6mm long. A second rivet is now detached, and has a head of 9.4mm diameter and a shank of length 6.6mm. The third rivet head is broken; what remains of it is now sub-triangular. Traces of gilding appear on the display side. The back of the plate is lost. The use of tripled domed rivets recalls Frankish buckle styles introduced from the 7th century, while the use of gilding may relate this to 8th-century styles. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 650-800.Length: 36.5mm, Width: 20.8mm, Thickness (overall clear of rivets): 4.3mm, Weight: 6.03gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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