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An incomplete cast copper-alloy zoomorphic buckle.
The buckle is D-shaped with a broad outer frame and narrowed bar. The outer frame has a pin rest in the middle of the outer frame, with shallow cast grooves across the breadth of the frame, which become increasingly angles and more closely spaced as the frame joins the bar. The terminals of the frame bear worn, facing beasts' heads, from which the bar emerged. The frame is bevelled but flattens towards the strap bar, with the lower edge projecting more than the upper edge. The pin is missing.
Notes:
Similar examples are illustrated in C. Marshall - Buckles Through The Ages fig.4
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1000
Date to: Circa AD 1200
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.2 mm
Width: 19.5 mm
Thickness: 2.34 mm
Weight: 5 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st August 2010 - Wednesday 1st September 2010
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: NT9604
Four figure Latitude: 55.330039
Four figure longitude: -2.064595
1:25K map: NT9604
1:10K map: NT90SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Marshall, C. | 1986 | Buckles Through the Ages | Essex | Greenlight Publishing | FIg 4 |