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Medieval zoomorphic box buckle (side view).
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West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, Anna Marshall, 2006-01-26 10:50:26
Title
Medieval zoomorphic box buckle (side view).
Description
English: Medieval copper-alloy buckle frame in the shape of a deep hollow animal head with small upright ears, a small upturned nose and a large open mouth. The deeply furrowed features are created with cast grooves. The inside of the head is hollow, and the reverse is flat with no decoration, indicating that this part was not visible. The reverse is now cracked and incomplete. The sides of the buckle frame protrude from the underside of the animal head and are broken and worn, leading them to look a little like protruding horns; the bar is missing. The strap would have emerged from the animal's open mouth.

The buckle weighs 9.3g and measures 29.1mm in length, 20.44mm in width and 15.97mm in thickness.

Some similar objects are recorded on the PAS database at LEIC-385BD8, ESS-407791, and NMS-4A6DC4 (with plate, and differently shaped animal head).

This type of buckle has been studied by A. Rogerson and S. Ashley, who have christened it the 'gaping-mouth beast' buckle. It is the subject of a forthcoming article in Medieval Archaeology (2011). They consider that the head is of Romanesque appearance and so a 12th-century date is likely.
Depicted place (County of findspot) North Yorkshire
Date between 1100 and 1200
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 113728
Old ref: SWYOR-B57064
Filename: box buckle3.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/90520
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/90520/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/113728
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