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BUCKLE
Unique ID: WILT-952048
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy buckle dating to the late Saxon period. The buckle is broadly D-shaped in plan with a straight strap bar and rounded outer frame. The edges of the frame expand past the strap bar, forming animal head terminals and there is a rounded and thickened expansion in the centre of the outer frame, also forming an animal head. The animal heads are of the Borre style with incised circular eyes. The frame is incised with a segmented geometric design. The strap bar is circular in section whilst the outer frame is bevelled and broadly rectangular in section. It measures 41.3mm in width, 35.6mm in length, 3.3mm in thickness (6.0mm at the animal head projection on the frame) and weighs 11.27g. The pin is missing and the frame has a gray-green patina.
Similar buckles are recorded on this database; e.g. SF7560, SF-9F02E3, SF-79DAF8, SF-76F478 and CORN-EC5F13. Also see an example in the Ashmolean Museum (Hinton (1974, 60-1, no. 32).
Class: Borre
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 900
Date to: Circa AD 1050
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 4270
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Marlborough
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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