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Unique ID: HAMP-59BDA0
Object type certainty: Certain
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A triangular cast copper alloy Early Medieval buckle counter plate. The face of the plate has round bosses at each apex and is covered with sinuous moulded zoomorphic decoration within a linear frame. The form of this decoration is now too worn to discern; however there may be a beast with head pointing to the narrow end of the plate. The reverse is flat with an in-line pair of large rectangular fixing lugs with drilled holes.
Circa late 6th - 7th century AD.
Notes:
This counter plate would originally have been paired with a separate frame and pin, which are now lost. A comparable example of a buckle set with this type of detached counter plate can be found in the collection of the Ashmolean (number 34.16 in MacGregor and Bolick, (1993), p196.). Other examples on the database include LVPL-7BAAA5, SF-672624 and LIN-C815DB.
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Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 550
Date to: Circa AD 700
Quantity: 1
Length: 39 mm
Height: 11.6 mm
Width: 20.5 mm
Thickness: 2.3 mm
Weight: 11.77 g
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SU0645
Four figure Latitude: 51.20418085
Four figure longitude: -1.91549931
1:25K map: SU0645
1:10K map: SU04NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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MacGregor, A. and Bolick, E. | 1993 | A summary catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon collections (non-ferrous metals), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | Oxford | Tempvs Reparatum |