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BUCKLE
Unique ID: NLM-0844C6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy buckle. Cast D shaped buckle with a thickened and expanded outer edge of oval section. A narrowed strap bar is grasped by beast head terminals with a faintly duck-billed appearance. A light groove at the mid point of the outer edge of the frame is a pin rest. In so far as is apparent given the abraded condition, the display face is slightly more rounded, or perhaps the back is worn smooth by use. The zoomorphic style is, in a Danelaw context, clearly influenced by Viking tastes. A similar buckle from Winchester is reported as being of 11th to 12th-century date (Hinton, D., 1990, 'Buckles and other clothes fittings', pages 494-589, in Biddle, M. [ed.], Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester, Winchester Studies 7:2, Clarendon Press, Oxford, page 514, fig. 129 no. 1110). Suggested date: Medieval, 1050-1150.
Length: 20.6mm, Width: 24.4mm, Thickness: 5.2mm, Weight: 6.89g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Scandinavian style
Date from: Circa AD 1000
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 20.6 mm
Width: 24.4 mm
Thickness: 5.2 mm
Weight: 6.89 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 1996 - Friday 31st December 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM25487a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: South Ferriby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9922
Four figure Latitude: 53.68508501
Four figure longitude: -0.50245302
1:25K map: SE9922
1:10K map: SE92SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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