Record ID: SF-E9E634
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy enamelled buckle plate of 12th or 13th century date. The plate is a Limoges product made from copper-alloy of which only a tiny stub survives. It is broadly circular in shape, but following the pattern of the enamel design dipping in the centre of each side of the plate. The enamel design comprises four lozenge shaped petals, with white, blue and red enamel, surrounding a circle which is pierced in the centre for a now missing rivet. Limoges dress accessories are only occasionally recorded (see NMS-128191, BH-9EC418, NMS-948…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-703BA0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 650 - 750. The buckle is D-shaped with a bevelled outer edge, narrowed bar, and half-round pin recess. The upper surface is decorated with a series of ten (10) sub-rectangular cells of red, yellow and white enamel. The bar is flanked by three narrow transverse rectangular cells, the outer two bear yellow enamel, the centre one has white enamel. A hinge loop projects from the outer flat edge of the frame, behind the bar. The remains of a second hinge loop are present at the opposite end of the bar. This is broken and worn.…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: LIN-B5A553
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper alloy buckle plate. The plate is rectangular, flat, and has two incomplete arms at one end. Three rivet holes are located along the opposite side. The face of the plate is decorated with a chequerboard pattern, with each groove filled with blue enamel. A border of blue enamel also runs around the board.
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
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Record ID: NLM-A357A7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Small double looped buckle with cast bar, outer edges with cells (enamel?) and offset loop at the bottom. Small baldrick? Small sword belt buckle. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650 Height: 26.3mm, Length: 24.8mm, Thickness: 6.6mm, Weight: 2.78gms
Created on: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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Record ID: DOR-917581
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate. One half of a folded sheet metal buckle plate. The fromt plate only. A sub-rectangular piece of sheet metal, toern along two edges. It has the remnant of the fold where it was attached to a buckle. At the opposite end is one complete and one partial circular attachment hole. The front is decorated with a a central cross inside a circle framed by inward pointing triangles The surface retains traces of gilding, blue enamel in some of the triangles and red enamel in the cross and circle. Date: Medieval c. 1250 - 1400 Dimensions: 21.07 mm x 21.…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: OXON-3D3531
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle with zoomorphic decoration, integral plate and a hinged stud plate dated to the Early Medieval period c. 10th-11th century. The buckles' main frame is D-shaped frame in plan and also in cross section. From its apex there is a projecting zoomorphic terminal. This is triangular in plan and moulded to include a two sub-triangular projecting ears, a clear eyebrow ridge, snout and has two incised oval recesses for eyes. Projecting from the opposite side of the frame is the integral plate. This narrows from the frame in smoot…
Created on: Tuesday 4th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2023
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Record ID: SF-B0F7FA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete enamelled copper-alloy Medieval buckle plate. The plate is rectangular in shape and two in-situ circular-sectioned dome-headed copper-alloy attachment rivets are present at the back edge. The buckle frame itself is missing and plate is broken across the recess where this would have been located along the inner edge. The plate is slightly bent towards the rear in profile. The front face of the plate is enamelled, although not all survives. The decoration comprises of an enamelled flower decoration consisting of four elongated oval petals, each…
Created on: Thursday 15th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Covehithe', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-7054AD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper-alloy pin from a buckle. It has a straight shaft of circular cross-section which tapers to a rounded point, and a sub-circular unclosed loop, which is somewhere between circular and square in cross-section. There is a narrow transverse ridge on the front face at the junction between the shaft and loop. 12th to 14th century. Length: 38.7mm. Diameter of shaft: 4.2. External diameter of loop: 10.2mm. Internal diameter of loop: 3.8mm. Weight: 3.6g            
Created on: Monday 12th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 12th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6ED97D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over half of a medieval annular and circular buckle frame. It is broadly oval in cross-section but marginally flatter on one face than the other. At the centre there is a concave constriction caused by wear, resulting from the rotation of a now missing pin. The frame terminates in worn breaks at each end. The metal is patinated dark green. Probably 12th to 14th century. External diameter: 45.0mm. Internal diameter: 36.2mm. Width: 5.0mm, Thickness: 3.7mm. Weight: 6.1g  
Created on: Monday 12th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 27th June 2023
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Record ID: WAW-9B9F7F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete, copper alloy disc-on-pin buckle of Medieval date (c. AD 1250-1350). The object has an annular frame with a D-shaped cross section. There is a narrow constriction where the pin rests and there are two notches on opposing sides of the reverse of the frame, both 90 degrees from the constriction. These would have held a wire bar at right angles to the pin, though this is missing. The pin is an open loop pin, and there is a circular disc in the centre of the pin that holds a circular, domed blue enamel. The pin is bent slight so that the circular disc tilts to its lef…
Created on: Thursday 9th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: WMID-E91845
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete copper-alloy and enamelled Early-Medieval buckle, dating from circa AD 700-800. The object is broadly an inverted triangle in plan with an incomplete circular projection at the tip. The main body of the buckle then expands to the opposing upper edge which features two incomplete triangular projections on either corner. A rectangular pin hole is present, measuring 4.7 mm by 2.4 mm. The front face of the object has traces of enamel. Original colour uncertain, possibly yellow. Triangular cells, infilled with enamel are present in each of the thre…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-55DC28
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Early Medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame with integral triangular plate dating to c. AD 600-700. The frame is sub-oval and is curved on the reverse. There are two semi-circular recesses either side of the inner part of the frame, which would once have held enamel. They now have iron corrosion products within, from the remains of the iron pin, the base of which is still inside the pin hole. A notch is situated opposite the pin hole. The flat triangular plate has two corners of the triangle near the frame, each of which has&nb…
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 26th October 2022
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Record ID: OXON-8CBBFA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete Early Medieval to Medieval copper alloy oval, lipped buckle frame of Meols Type 1 dating to the 14th century AD. The buckle retains an attachment plate and its pin. The frame is oval in plan with a recessed and offset strap bar and is oval in cross section. An attachment plate still articulates around the offset strap bar. This plate is rectangular with two tabs projecting from one narrow edge that fold over 180 degrees around the strap bar from which another plate extends folded flat against the first section. The plate is held together two rivets placed nea…
Created on: Friday 26th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2023
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Record ID: DOR-BF5B26
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate dating to the Medieval period c.1150 - 1250. The plate is decorated with Limoges style enamelling in a geometric design. The buckle is missing. There are two recessed arms and a sub-angular slot for the attachment of the missing pin and buckle. The rear part of the folded plate is missing. The front of the plate is enamelled. The decoration comprises an outer circular band of green enamel around a quatrefoil frame of reserve metal with a square reserve inside. The arches of the quatrefoil are each filled with an oute…
Created on: Monday 11th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-AF97F6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval cast copper alloy buckle plate, 24.3mm in length. The face of the plate has traces of a zoomorphic motif, possibly originally enamelled in the Limoges style, depicting a lion(?) or other beast with head facing back along its body and its tail curled behind. The rear edge of the plate has a pair of rivet holes, one of which retains a copper alloy rivet.
Created on: Thursday 16th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th June 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: GLO-64F269
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy buckle with integral plate. the plate is sub-rectangular narrowing to its rear were it is expanded din to a circular terminal. Opposite on the forward edge would have been mounted and integral D-shaped buckle; however, this is now truncated and only consists of two projecting arms at the front that would have flanked the hole for the pin. The face of the plate is decorated with three recessed cells filled with red enamel although only traces of the enamel now remains , the fist cell situated behind the buckle is a cross pattee, followed by a transverse bar …
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2022
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Record ID: LIN-89F702
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early medieval Irish enamelled buckle plate dating to c.AD 600-900 The buckle plate is sub-triangular with concave edges, gently tapering to one end and terminating with a circular recess that would have held a setting. It is ornately decorated on one side with zoomorphic and geometric fields filled with alternating yellow and pale cream champlevé enamel. The plate is decorated with a pair of parallel open-jawed zoomorphic creatures depicted in profile, appearing to frame or 'bite' the circular recess. Inside the circular recess are faint concentric grooves an…
Created on: Monday 21st March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th April 2022
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Record ID: KENT-B113D9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle plate of medieval date (c. AD 1200-1300), probably executed in the Limoges style. Description: The object consists of the front sheet of a folded buckle plate which is sub-rectangular in plan with slightly flared corners on one side. These corners retain the copper-alloy rivets which would have secured the front and back sheets of the plate onto the strap of the belt. The opposite side of the plate has two sub-rectangular projecting lugs, the remains of the hinge attachment to which the frame would have attached to the buckles frame. These are fl…
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-91AFCE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An enamelled cast copper alloy double loop buckle of 17th century date, 44.9mm in length. The frame has trepzoidal loops with pointed ends and is decorated with recessed cells containing enamel. The cells on each end comprise triangular cells of green enamel flanking three of white enamel. The sides each have 4 rectangular cells; these have no enamel remaining, but on the basis of comparison with more complete examples such as SUSS-D0ECE2, would have been filled with white, green, green then white enamel. The frame is bent and the pin has been lost.
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 8th November 2021
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Record ID: WILT-41265C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy and enamel buckle, dating to c AD 650 - 750. It consists of the loop of what was probably a three-part buckle. Tongue and plate (which would have been integral to one another) and what was probably a sub-triangular body, are missing. The loop is sub-pelta shape with the outer edge possibly taking the form of two opposed stylised zoomorphic heads, raised up, their snake-like tails continuing around the loop and almost meeting at the attachment end. Below the raised heads is a half-round pin notch. The beasts are indicated by sub-rectangular and…
Created on: Monday 11th October 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.