Record ID: NLM-499365
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast D-shaped or single looped buckle with an expanded bulbous outer edge on which pronounced radial ribs flank a broad and bordered pin rest, these details appearing on the display side only, and with devolved beast heads gripping the ends of the strap bar. Dave Haldenby kindly considers the beast heads to be more realistically modelled than on other examples in the group and the outer edge to be less expanded - perhaps in its relative thickness [MF]. A spot of rust on the strap bar may hint at the loss of an iron pin, which was presumably attached when the buckle…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-49270E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast D-shaped or single looped buckle with an expanded bulbous outer edge with horizontal ribbing and a narrowed strap bar retaining a probably drawn and hammered pin. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-950 Length: 12.3mm, Height: 13.7mm, Thickness: 4mm, Weight: 2.18gms
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-F28C0A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy buckle frame which is probably from the Early Medieval period, about AD 850 - 1000. It is probably a Borre style buckle. The frame is D-shaped with a pointed outer edge which is zoomorphic; it has a perhaps Borre-style animal head with curved ears projecting from the frame, incised eyes and a projecting snout forming the pointed terminal, but the details are obscured by corrosion. The bar is straight but narrowed. Two hinge loops project from the bar but the axis bar, plate and pin are missing. The buckle has patches of a bright green patina, but it has mostkly flaked of…
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 25th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-E34308
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle plate, as kindly identified by Dave Haldenby, whose further discussion is rehearsed below in the notes field. Cast zoomorphic plate resembling strap ends of Thomas Class B4, but with rust staining suggesting its intimate association with ironwork at either end. A transversely ribbed and moulded snout has projecting ‘crocodile’ nostrils at its outer end, with twin lugs with a transverse hole clogged by rust beyond them. At the inner end of the ribbing a pair of protruding eyes stand proud of the rest. Beyond this, the plain split end bears the remnants of iron r…
Created on: Tuesday 31st August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-FBCE47
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
~~A copper alloy (Anglo-Scandinavian?) oval buckle that has a bevelled underside and a zoomorphic protrusion to the front. The forward protrusion compresses of a long narrow triangular point that has two circular knops at the base that represent eyes, this probably represents the head of a bird. The centre of the forward edge is recessed to act as a pin rest. The rear of the buckle is expanded to form an interregnal buckle plate. This has a slot in the forward edge for the pin. To hold the buckle pin in place, in the middle of the slot there is a circular hole that passes form one sid…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-8D85FA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy single-looped buckle, of Early Medieval dating (c.AD 800 to c.AD 1100). Around 50% of one of the buckle loop remains with the pin and bar now missing. At the outer edge of the remaining part of the loop is a pointed moulded knop with a zoomorphic terminal consisting of moulded eyes and ears. The reverse of the frame is flat and undecorated. The reverse of the knop is slightly concave. The buckle frame has a brown coloured uneven surface patina. Abrasion, caused by movement whilst within the plough soil, has resulted in a loss of some of the original surfa…
Created on: Friday 14th July 2017
Last updated: Friday 31st August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-B533EC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Zoomorphic (Anglo-Scandinavian?) buckle with protruding bird's head and tail. The head has two raised eyes and a tapering flattened beak. The body forms the frame of the buckle and has a single central incised line forming a circle. The tail is triangular, ending in two lobes and decorated with incised lines. Two empty rivet holes and an indented area on the tail underside form an attachment for a belt. A slot on the inside of the frame next to the tail plate would have held the pin. The object measures 47mm length, 26mm width at its widest point and has a thickness of 5.5mm maximu…
Created on: Friday 31st July 2015
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-A2A3EE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Terminal fragment of a buckle frame that has already been recorded in 2007 in CORN-EC5F13 with the description below. The terminal is triangular in plan with a zoomorphic head at the end of the broken frame, which is lozenge-shaped in section. The rounded snout of the snake-like head is slightly longer than its pair at the opposite end of the frame, with very similar circular eye sockets where the inner eye socket is more recessed than the outer socket. At the side of the head, just beside the inner eye socket, there is the beginnings of the strap bar, which is circular in section and…
Created on: Monday 19th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 21st May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: GLO-589BE7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy D-shaped buckle with a separate spindle that forms the strapbar. The centre of the forward edge has a large lug that is shaped into an animal facemask. This consists of two large circular bulbous eyes and a crescent on the forward edge for the snout. On the top of the head, on the frame of the buckle is a symmetrical curvilinear moulding. This could represent antlers and may suggest that the animal facemask is depicting a deer. The top edges of the side arms are decorated with rectangular panels. The rear for the frame has a rectangular cross-section with a con…
Created on: Wednesday 13th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 29th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Guiting Power', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-902CE5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy buckle frame, semi-circular in plan and semi-circular in cross-section, with a flat reverse. The frame was originally D-shaped, like the comparanda below. Only one of the three terminals survives, in the form of a sub-triangular animal head terminal with circular eye sockets which may have originally been settings for a stone. The other two terminals on either side of this one are missing, but would probably have looked the same. The frame is chamfered on the outer edge, but still leaving a flat upper surface which is ornamented with a zigzag pattern, with some…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 21st May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM4249
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
D-shaped buckle with animal head protruding, Viking, Urnes/Ringerike style. No pin. Helen Geake writes: Although the original description identified this as Urnes/Ringerike style, it seems more like the series of buckles decorated with Borre-style animal heads, as exemplified by the complete example at NLM730.
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2000
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE FREISTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM2686
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Borre style buckle plate, with two perforated lugs at the bottom. Viking. Similar to Thomas Class B, Type 4 strap-ends.
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 1999
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2018
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