Record ID: LIN-B6F0ED
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet belt buckle, dating to c.AD 575-700. This buckle parallels the form of Marzinzik Typegroup II.19b and is the only recorded buckle in this group with garnet and gold cloisonné setting. The sub-rectangular plate, which measures 15.79 mm in width, 23.15 mm in length and 3.93 in thickness and weighs 5.70g, comprises of a gold sheet underplate and backplate with a pair of looped hinges which would have attached the plate to the buckle frame. The buckle-end has a semi-circular cut-away top. The belt was fitted into the rectangular socket…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cumberworth area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-E72BAE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Published
A gold cloisonné insert probably from the tongue of an early Anglo-Saxon buckle. The item is pelta-shaped and comprises a panel of gold, garnet and glass cloisonné cellwork, containing around thirty settings/inlays. It is formed from a gold sheet base plate, to which has been soldered a network of cells made from upright strips of gold sheet. This cellwork includes a large central setting around 8.2mm wide, now empty. The surrounding cells are of various shapes, with 12 red inlays (probably garnets) and three blue glass inlays surviving. The surviving garnet inlays sit up…
Created on: Thursday 23rd August 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Marlowe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-920F4E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval cast gold cloisonné buckle tongue. The tongue comprises a mushroom-shaped base with an integral tongue, which extends outwards from the base and flares as it curves downwards towards the blunt tip. The lower edges of the tongue are decorated with a row of punched crescent motifs surrounded by a border of lightly punched dots. A double row of dots, much worn, is also visible along top of the tongue. On the back of the buckle is a gold loop, rectangular in cross-section, for attaching to the missing buckle loop. The upper surface of the base is decorated with ge…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-459ADD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Part of a cast gold buckle-plate or belt mount, carrying a single recessed rectangular panel, which contains a bold design of two transitional Style I/Style II bird heads. The birds face each other across the top of the panel with their prominent curving beaks springing from a small and poorly defined head. Each eye is formed from a single small punch-mark. The necks are delineated by two raised bands that run parallel to the edges of the plate, turning the corner to end at the midpoint where they are separated from each other by a single slash. The surviving edge i…
Created on: Friday 4th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-F287F9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case: 2017 T680 Description: A strip of gold sheet decorated with applied filigree ornament, now broken into two joining pieces. The strip was originally sub-rectangular in shape and is slightly distorted. The upper surface is decorated with a repousse interlacing design, the raised parts of which are enhanced with applied gold beaded wire, comprising a thicker strand between two finer stands. A border comprising a single strand of gold beaded wire runs around the outer edge of the strip. The reverse side is plain but the repousse indentations of the design are visible. Dim…
Created on: Monday 31st July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: KENT-7FA24B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A composite early-medieval gold, garnet and green glass cloisonné mount, possibly from a buckle. Description: The mount is sub-triangular in form. It comprises a gold frame, constructed from a sheet gold back-plate to which have been soldered gold strips, set edge-on, to create four cells: three hemispherical cells arranged around a central triangular cell. The hemispherical cells are inlaid with red stones, probably garnets, and the triangular cell is inlaid with green glass. The gold frame is edged with a strand of gold beaded wire, masking the join between cells and back-plate.…
Created on: Wednesday 7th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 6th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chislet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-0D7F15
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early-Modern sub-rectangular gold shoe or knee buckle frame dating from AD1700-1750. The buckle would have had a spindle and pronged chape which are now missing. One side of the buckle is split where the spindle would have been inserted, this damage, possible leading to the loss of the buckle. The buckle has a foliate or scroll design. There are no maker or hallmarks on the buckle possibly indicating that this buckle was made prior to May 1739. Dimensions: length: 34.32mm; width: 31.43mm; thickness: 1.98mm; weight: 10.02g A buckle with a similar design dating to th…
Created on: Friday 14th October 2016
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-47843A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
A plain gold buckle of rectangular cross-section, comprising a hollow triangular plate and an oval loop. The buckle plate consists of a flat upper plate which is soldered to side walls, creating a box-like hollow-backed element. The apex of the triangular box expands into a circular lobe; there are also two curved projections, each slightly smaller than the apex lobe, along the long sides near to the wider end. The upper part of the buckle plate is then fixed to a sheet gold back-plate by (probably) five rivets. One rivet is placed at each of the rounded projections, one at the ape…
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2016
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rutland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: STAFFS-C464D7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold buckle and plate. Oval loop, filigree around the three rivets
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-73AF38
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon thick silver object set with a panel of cloisonné garnets with gold cell walls. Description: Sub-triangular three-dimensional object made from cast silver, with all edges curved (two concave and one convex). When held with the convex edge downwards, the object is curved in cross-section from side to side; the reverse is flatter, but has a C-shaped raised area following the convex edge with a sunken C-shaped centre which is part of the original casting. The effect is that of a horse's hoof. There is no obvious break, but there is an oval scar on top of the apex…
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Heslerton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: STAFFS-002B56
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold oval buckle with a rectangular plate retained by two gold rivets. Dirty.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-934B16
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold post medieval or modern buckle. It is a rectangular frame with six raised rectangular collets on the front, each set with a green piece of glass or gem. The reverse of the frame is recessed and has tubular housings for a separate spindle. The spindle, pin and plate are missing. The frame has been damaged in the ground, and there is damage to one end. It is 31.11mm long, 25.06mm wide and 12.65mm thick. It weighs 4.14g. Judy Rudoe of the British Museum has seen a photograph of the buckle and comments that it is "perhaps late 18th or 19th Century, a breeches or waist buckle". As i…
Created on: Thursday 11th March 2010
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-6557E1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete gold Anglo Saxon buckle pin of unusual form. The pin is complete and curves downwards whilst tapering gently in width towards its terminal end, it is D-shaped in section, being flat underneath. The terminal end is open and flat and shows that the pin is in fact hollow and now filled with soil. In fact the pin appears to be constructed from two separate sheets of gold, a front sheet bent into a U-shape which is soldered onto a back plate. The front face of the pin has seven square cells running longitudinally along its centre, each cell very slightly smalle…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MID SUFFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-5798B4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small gold buckle consisting of an oval loop with a tongue with curved tip and a hinged, high-rectangular plate. Three rivets in form of small cabochon garnets set inside a triple frame made from a plain gold and two beaded wire collars are arranged across the plate. The middle garnet is cracked. The tongue rest shows signs of wear and the back of the plate is plain except for the three rivet stumps. The size of the buckle suggests that it may have come from a pouch or knife strap, although in the seventh century very narrow waist belts were popular as well. The buckle is of Marzi…
Created on: Friday 13th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanstead Abbots', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-32A781
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Cap made of gold sheet, perhaps the covering of a rivet. The cap is fashioned into a well shaped dome, with the edge cleanly finished. It may have originally covered a rivet from the toe or shoulder of a large triangular buckle, attaching the front plate of the buckle through leather to the back plate.
Created on: Thursday 12th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WOODNESBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-AC1CE6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and cloisonné garnet setting from the tongue plate of a high status buckle. The setting is sub-rectangular with curved cutaways defining the shoulders. It is made with a sheet gold back plate to which is soldered a single strip of gold sheet set on edge to form a frame for the cloisonné cell work. This is inlaid with well cut garnets over pointillé foil and fills the panel with a design of two skilfully entwined snakes: their heads with well defined open jaws fill the lower corners and their sinuous bodies interlace across the centre of the panel to end in tails tucked beneath…
Created on: Friday 18th March 2005
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THURNHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B895B4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A length of fine beaded gold wire in a circular shape. Both ends of the wire are soldered together and the wire is broken at the junction of two beads. The diameter of the wire is 20.0mm.
Created on: Monday 19th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thimbleby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-276915
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an ornamental panel from the lower end of a small triangular buckle plate. The gold foil sheet is torn and slightly crumpled and carries the remains of interlacing elements, probably stylised zoomorphs, in fine beaded wire between beaded wire borders. The triple banded design of the zoomorphs is executed typically using wire of two weights B a thicker central wire flanked on either side by thinner wire. The filigree wire is soldered to a thin gold sheet worked in repousse with the underlying pattern. Triangular buckles come into use in the last quarter of the 6th century,…
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelvedon', grid reference and parish protected.