WAW-D5C859: Early Medieval Buckle (plan, obverse and reverse)

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BUCKLE

Unique ID: WAW-D5C859

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

A cast copper alloy single-looped D-shaped buckle frame of probable Early Medieval date. It has a pointed outside edge with zoomorphic decoration of a stylised animal head, consisting of a vertical ridge (parallel to the bar) with a break in the cenntre, representing the ears; a lower parallel ridge, representing the brow; and a lower area at the point itself, representing a snout. The rest of the frame is flat, and decorated with a design of irregularly spaced ring-and-dot motifs on the upper face. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The bar is slightly narrowed, and rounded in cross-section. The buckle has a mid-brown even patina across both faces. It measures 28.1mm long, 28.02mm wide, is 3.23mm thick at its widest point on the frame and weighs 6g.

There are several parallels on the PAS database, notably SWYOR-E29015 (with more detail on the animal-head terminal) and the slightly smaller NMS-10E046 and NMS-EA351A. The animal head is derived from the Borre style which was in use in the late 9th and 10th centuries.

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
Ascribed Culture: Anglo-Scandinavian style
Date from: Circa AD 870
Date to: Circa AD 1000

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 28.1 mm
Width: 28.02 mm
Thickness: 3.23 mm
Weight: 6 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 2014 - Wednesday 31st December 2014

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: West Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Exhall (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SP0954
Four figure Latitude: 52.18417656
Four figure longitude: -1.86978155
1:25K map: SP0954
1:10K map: SP05SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Margeson, S.	1993	Norwich Households: Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78	Norwich	East Anglian Archaeology	26	128

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Recording Institution: WAW
Created: 8 years ago
Updated: 5 years ago

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