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Buckle
Unique ID: NMGW-658F92
Object type certainty: Certain
Buckle frame fragment of Anglo-Saxon date, probably dating from the 5th to 8th century. The frame is broken at both ends and has a moulded animal head projection erupting from above the thinning of the frame at the junction with the bar. The buckle was probably D-shaped, and is originally likely to have had a buckle plate. The frame beyond the animal head is plain and of oval section. The animal head is asymmetrical about its width with incised eyes crowned on one side with transverse markings. The snout is dished on both sides and is angled upwards, possibly suggesting an open mouth biting on the bar. The underside of the buckle displays coarse file marks.
Notes:
The buckle can be paralleled with a slightly smaller example now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (MacGregor & Bolick, 1993; No 34.30, p200) and found associated with a male inhumation at Dorchester.
Class: D-shaped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: AD 410
Date to: AD 799
Dimensions and weight
Length: 34.5 mm
Width: 8.2 mm
Thickness: 6.6 mm
Weight: 5.9 g
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Decoration style: Zoomorphic [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Fragment [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: South West
County: Gloucestershire
District: Forest Of Dean
Parish: Rudford And Highleadon
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st November 2003
Personal details
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Identified by: Mr Mark Lodwick - [view all attributed records]
Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMGWPA 2004.11.9
References cited
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Created:
Tuesday 27th January 2004
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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