buckle-fitting
- Museum number
- 2008,8021.1
- Description
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Silver-gilt plate from a buckle, loop now missing: one end narrowing to a neck before fanning out to a perforated and rounded tip; opposite wider end, with a small rectangular slot cut out, is folded over itself and secured by two small domed rivets; shallow chip-carved two-strand interlace decoration contained in a frame; ending in a triquetra framing the perforation at the narrow end.
- Production date
- 9thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 58 millimetres (unstraightened)
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Thickness: 2 millimetres (approx.)
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Width: 15 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- "The piece may perhaps have functioned as the plate for a small buckle, allowing for a tongue and a loop to be hinged to it trough the opening so created." (Dr Anna Gannon)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- Acquisition notes
- Metal detector find.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2008,8021.1
- Additional IDs
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Treasure/PAS number: 2006T262 (Treasure number)
