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Post-medieval buckle: S-shaped buckle
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All rights reserved, Anni Byard, 2014-01-29 10:35:29
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Post-medieval buckle: S-shaped buckle
Description
English: A complete copper alloy S-shaped buckle with loop, dating from the post-medieval period. Although often called snake buckles, they actually appear to depict waterfowl, in this case probably swans. The heads form the terminals of the S-shaped buckle, with moulded patterning forming collars enclosing a series of transverse ribs. The collars are flanked on either side by four floral/foliage or "spear-head" motifs. Another possibility is that these mouldings may represent crowns; swans are used in heraldry and can represent loyalty and grace among other things. The surviving attachment loop is sub-rectangular in plan and formed from one piece of copper wire. There would have been an opposing attachment which is now missing. These buckle are attibuted to sword belts of the late 16th and 17th century AD although similar buckles were still used by the military into the late 19th century.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 1575 and 1800
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1575-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 598079
Old ref: BERK-8D39D6
Filename: 2013809.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/454229
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/454229
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/598079
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Object location51° 38′ 24.72″ N, 1° 23′ 01.9″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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