Record ID: NMS-5FBDB6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle apparently made from a strap-slide. Rectangular frame with convex sides, outside edge and attachment edge. There are two short internal projections. The outside edge is cast in the form of a stylised king's head longitudinally set with triple-lobed crown and large, angular nose. Sub-rectangular sheet plate with hole for large sheet pin, broken just past fold, front-plate missing, with a single copper alloy rivet at attachment end. The internal projections may be the remains of a broken transverse bar, the breaks made smooth as part of the repair, or …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-606591
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant. Suspension mount broken across two rivet holes at upper edge, the upper half wedge-shaped, the side edges on the lower half triple-lobed either side of a trefoil field, now empty, with a rivet below. Double pierced lugs project from the lower edge retaining an axis bar from which langs a lozengiform pendant from a transverse-pierced lug, with rounded lobes projecting from each side of the lozenge, two of which survive. There is a blue enamelled quatrefoil at the centre of the pendant. For a similar pendant see NMS-0121D4 and NMS-6F9874. Mount …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2017
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