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BUCKLE
Unique ID: HAMP-C1BDF0
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A corroded and broken medieval buckle frame, decorated in a Romanesque or slightly later style (12/13th century AD). It has a broad angled outer edge featuring two confronted creatures moulded in high relief. The creatures, possibly dogs, have two legs visible and curled round tails, in one and a half loops; the tails fill the areas between the animal's body and the side of the outer edge. They sit upright and facing with their heads projecting above the top edge, creating a pin rest between them. The ends of the pin bar are moulded and the bar itself narrowed and recessed. The pin bar has been broken at both ends and both mouldings bent outwards. The bar has been truncated just beyond one of the mouldings while the element attached to the other one has been bent back on itself in an S shape. A similar buckle can be found on this database - ref. NMS-9BBAE2. This buckle is largely covered in light-green and off-white corrosion product over a red-brown metal.
Class: single-looped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1150
Date to: Circa AD 1250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.8 mm
Height: 11.8 mm
Width: 32 mm
Weight: 7.66 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 7th October 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E2943
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Winchester (District)
Parish or ward: Kings Worthy (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU4933
Four figure Latitude: 51.094223
Four figure longitude: -1.301668
1:25K map: SU4933
1:10K map: SU43SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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