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Record ID: WILT-B78FF7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval incomplete Borre style buckle dating to c AD 900-1050.  The object is a zoomorphic single-loop buckle frame which is missing its pin and the pin retaining bar.  The frame is bent but was originally D-shaped with Borre-style animal heads at the ends of the bar and the mid point of the outer edge.  The frame is D-shaped in cross-section and, although very worn, retains traces of stamped decoration along both edges (possibly stamped triangles).  All three animal head knops have tapering, snub-nosed muzzles with large, rounded ears at th…
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 7th March 2023
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Record ID: WILT-531F77
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy tongue from an early medieval Anglo-Saxon buckle dating to AD 575-625. The tongue is a 'shield-on-tongue' type which is in the shape of a violin or guitar. The tongue is incomplete and is missing its attachment on the back. The object has a curved end and the sides are then indented before flaring out and curving round to form a flat section at the top of the 'shield'. The pin then extends out and is D-shaped in profile. Half way along it narrows and the end section narrows and curves to form the end of the pin that would have hooked over the frame of the buckle. The ba…
Created on: Wednesday 7th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2016
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