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Early medieval buckle
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Colchester Museums, Caroline McDonald, 2004-08-31 16:25:27
Title
Early medieval buckle
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English: Cast copper alloy buckle frame. This buckle frame is D shaped in plan and subtriangular in section, i.e. the frame is bevelled, with the pin bar being subcircular in section. It is decorated with three zoomorphic knops, one at the front and one at each end of the pin bar. The front knop is subtriangular in plan and section. It is 12.46mm long, 11.92mm wide and 5.66mm thick. The knop is moulded so that the animal has a double lobed crown, separated by a punched lozenge shaped hole at the back of the head, and a broad semicircular snout. Two drilled holes form the eyes. An incised horizontal line forms the mouth. Two parallel incised lines run horizontally from the beast’s snout along both sides of its head, much in the form of whiskers. The knops at either end of the pin bar look in the opposite direction to the front knop. They are smaller, being 11mm long, 8mm wide and 6mm thick. They are also subtriangular in plan and section. They are moulded in a similar way with a double lobed crown separated by a lozenge shaped indent at the back of the head. The snouts are semicircular, but more narrow and long. The eyes are formed from drilled holes and the mouths are again a simple incised horizontal line. The snouts are incised with a pair of horizontal lines to each side along the head, again reminiscent of whiskers. The pin bar has been bent along its length, so that it now has a slightly arched profile and the buckle frame is also slightly bent out of true to one side. The pin is entirely missing. The original surface of the buckle is missing and it is now rough and abraded. It has browny green patina with tiny flashes of shiny bronze (it has been polished since discovery). It has an overall length of 41.64mm, is 36.88mm wide, is 6.5mm wide and 1.8mm thick on the frame and 2.8mm thick at the pin bar. It weighs 13.31g.

The animal head design suggests this buckle may date to the 9th or 10th centuries, though elements of this design carry on through to the 12th century.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 800 and 1200
Accession number
FindID: 73685
Old ref: ESS-497052
Filename: DSCN1477.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/35054
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/35054/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/73685
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