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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NMS-E13256
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Very unusual Medieval copper alloy buckle, sheet frame with terminals drilled with separate inserted offset narrowed bar, rectangular plate (39 x 13mm), folded widthways, recessed for frame with slot for cast D-sectioned pin, transverse bar at open loop. The face has engraved zoomorphic decoration comprising a dragon on a field of vertical lines within a border. Much of the inner faces of front and back parts are soldered together, except where accommodating the frame and a narrow transverse bar spacer pierced by copper alloy rivet at attachment-end (3 x 13mm). It is hard to see how this buckle would have functioned as there is no space for insertion of the belt.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1425
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39 mm
Width: 13 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st October 2006
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 30842
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: West Rudham
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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