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BUCKLE

Unique ID: NMS-810161

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

An incomplete buckle plate, of very worn and corroded purplish metal, the broad end with stumps of twin projections and pierced by a rivet-hole, raised moulded decoration of an animal-head in high relief with its snout towards the rounded perforated terminal. >28mm x 9mm. Stylistically similar finds are known from a number of sites including Postwick (HER 25984), Wendling (HER 40868), Shotesham (HER 20297), St Faith’s Lane, Norwich, (Geake in Emery (2007), Fig. 5.90, SF 102) and Fishergate, York (Rogers (1993), fig.652, no.5320. The closest parallel to this example is a buckle plate from Gisleham, Suffolk (SMR ref: GSE Misc.). 9th century.

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 800
Date to: AD 900

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 28 mm
Width: 9 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st February 2009

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Broadland (District)
To be known as: Foulsham

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Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

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Created: 14 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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