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Medieval buckle: Single looped buckle
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Oxfordshire County Council, Anni Byard, 2012-12-03 15:44:31
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Medieval buckle: Single looped buckle
Description
English: A complete cast copper alloy D-shaped buckle, with expanded outer frame, dating to the medieval period c. AD 1250-1400. The buckle is small and has a recessed bar for the pin, which is intact and made from copper alloy. Interestingly this buckle has a design on the outer frame. Some buckles of this type display punched dot decoration of geometric patterns, but this example has moulded decoration consisting of three figures, each with a stick or pole between them and grasped by each, apparently in some kind of dance. The figures have long hair (suggesting women?) or are wearing flowing head-dresses. The remains of gilding can be seen around the figures. This is the first example with the decoration that the author has come across, and a search of the usual literature and this database has not revealed any parallels. Maybe the small size of the buckle, and the theme of decoration, indicates that it was made for children. The search for parallels continues.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 1250 and 1400
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 533322
Old ref: BERK-CC78D2
Filename: 2012270.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/406922
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/406922/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/533322
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