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Unique ID: NLM-3D5F37
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper alloy buckle. Cast D shaped or single looped buckle frame with a widened and thickened curving outer edge and a narrow strap bar which has a moulded zoomorphic beast head grasping either end. Each head has a long tapered snout extended beyond the bar, a pair of elongated ears or protruding eyes, and a narrow hollow representing the mouth which is carried up below the ears/eyes. A number of similar buckles reported from the Thonock Estate near Gainsborough probably represent losses from a Viking army recorded as encamped there in 1016. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 1000-1050.
Length: 16.3mm, Height: 17.5mm, Thickness: 6.1mm, Weight: 5.34gms
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
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 1000
Date to: Circa AD 1050
Quantity: 1
Length: 16.3 mm
Height: 17.5 mm
Thickness: 6.1 mm
Weight: 5.34 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st May 2016
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Other reference: NLM32747
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SE9113
Four figure Latitude: 53.60566739
Four figure longitude: -0.62617695
1:25K map: SE9113
1:10K map: SE91SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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