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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NCL-341171
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper-alloy buckle with a hinged plate, dating to the 10-12th centuries.
The buckle frame is D-shaped, with a projecting, triangular outer frame with features of a zoomorphic face in relief. The back of the frame has backward projecting lugs that take the lugs of a sub-triangular zoomorphic plate. The hinge-pin is attached to the axle passing through the lugs of the buckle frame and place. The base of the pin also has decoration in relief suggestive of a zoomorphic/bird-like face, in with the tapering shaft of the pin is the beak.
The underside is undecorated.
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: Include in MedArch
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 900
Date to: Circa AD 1200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 37.44 mm
Width: 20.33 mm
Thickness: 8.41 mm
Weight: 8.2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 20th June 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: North East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
District: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Whittington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: NY9971
Four figure Latitude: 55.033521
Four figure longitude: -2.01718
1:25K map: NY9971
1:10K map: NY97SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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