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"430044","LON-FE5446","PAS4D5FE544001CEA","Buckle","","","32.96","","25.19","7.12","","1","","","MEDIEVAL","1100","1200","A Medieval buckle made from animal skeletal material (bone) with integral plate dating to the 12th century. The buckle frame is D-shaped and has been carved in one piece with the buckle plates. The pin pivots on a dowel; the end of which is visible on one side only. The frame has a notched pin rest and is decorated with carved diagonal lines. These diagonal lines are overlain by concentric V-shaped lines around the pin rest. There is a front and back buckle plate, all carved in one. There are two rivet holes for attachment. The corner of the front plate is broken across one of the rivet holes.
A very similar buckle was excavated from Jedburgh Abbey (Lewis & Ewart 1995:83-4). This excavated example has a similar construction and decoration but does not appear to have the V-shaped variation around the pin rest and it is also made from horn rather than bone. It is dated to the 12th century. A further similar buckle, also made from bone, has also been excavated from a deserted medieval village at Goltho, Lincolnshire (MacGregor (1985:104-5). This buckle is again of similar construction but the decoration varies again with the V-shaped engravings around the pin rest but not the diagonal lines around the rest of the frame; there are also engraved lines forming a border around the front buckle plate. Goltho is an early medieval manor dating c. 850-1150 (Beresford 1987).
Dimensions: length: 32.96mm; width: 25.19mm; thickness: 7.12mm; weight: 5.26g.
Reference: Beresford, G. 1987. Goltho. The Development of an Early Medieval Manor c. 850-1150. English Heritage Archaeological Report 4 London.
Lewis, J. H. & Ewart, G. J. 1995. Jedburgh Abbey. The Archaeology and Architecture of a Border Abbey. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh. Monograph Series Number 10.
MacGregor, A. 1985. Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn. The Technology of Skeletal Materials since the Roman Period. Croom Helm, London and Sydney.","MacGregor (1985:103) writes the main stylistic developments in buckle design seem always to have taken place in metal, and although buckles are known in bone... from the early Roman to the late medieval period, the majority are copies of metal types. While bone tissue undoubtedly performs better under compression than in tension, its mechanical properties are evidently quite adequate for this task.





Reference: MacGregor, A. 1985. Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn. The Technology of Skeletal Materials since the Roman Period. Croom Helm, London and Sydney.","","2011-02-19 15:44:05","2011-07-26 10:15:52","4","1","1","","","","Found eyes only on the foreshore","","2","1","1","1","","","1","1","National importance","ksumnall","Kate Sumnall","LON","kcreed","Kath Creed","Animal skeletal material","","","","Hand made","","Incomplete","Good","Certain","MEDIEVAL","MEDIEVAL","","Other chance find","","Mrs Kate Sumnall","","Mrs Kate Sumnall","GREATER LONDON","TOWER HAMLETS","TOWER HAMLETS","","","","TQ3380","TQ3380","TQ38SW","","","","","","","From Map","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","321484","Jennings-BNBuckle-TowerJuly10.jpg","images/ksumnall/",