English: An incomplete Late Early-Medieval (1000-1200) copper alloy buckle frame with integral plate, missing the (iron) pin and an uncertain amount of integral plate. It measures 41.25mm in length, 27.72mm in max.width and 7.90mm in max.thickness (the iron corrosion from the pin). It weighs 9.37g.

The frame is D-shaped, but with an extended, triangular outer edge from which a zoomorphic head projects. This head comprises a square snout behind which is a narrow ridge in front of two punched circles for eyes. The head appears to be held by two open-jawed heads of late Viking inspiration with lip lappets, defined by Ringerike-like decoration punched into the flat surface of the frame (which here is its max.thickness, 3.84mm). However, the other end of the neck extends into a more obvious open-jawed head (with raised circular eye with a circular punch at the centre and further punched-circle decoration) either side of the bar (3.03mm thick)

Behind the bar is the integral plate, 15.40mm wide and 2.10mm thick, with an old jagged break after c.11mm. It is decorated along the three complete edges with punched zig-zag lines. Just behind the bar is a lump of iron corrosion (present on both front and back surfaces) from the missing pin.

There is no decoration to the underside but the inside edge of the buckle frame is cut at an angle from underneath (not visible from the front).

Cf. a similar buckle with integral plate on this database, DENO-0F2314, and Griffiths, Philpott and Egan 'Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast', pp. 62 & 72, plate 8, no. 307 & 310. Kevin Leahy comments 'this did have Scandinavian antecedents, but these are so long in the past that they have become lost in a mass of Romanesque art'.