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04/391 Zoomorphic buckle (detail)
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, David Williams, 2004-11-10 16:42:34
Title
04/391 Zoomorphic buckle (detail)
Description
English: An anthropomorphic medieval copper-alloy buckle of unusual form. The outer edge of the D-shaped frame is in the form of a human head with prominent central nose, moulded ears and engraved-line mouth, and with additional punched dots to represent the eyes and engraved lines for the eyebrows. The buckle plate is integrally cast and is itself a simple open frame, with a slot for the slender copper-alloy wire pin and a large expanded circular hole at the terminal. The pin is made of a different alloy. The buckle itself, which is well-preserved, is widely covered with filing marks.

Similar buckles have been recorded on the PAS database at SF-AEA143, WILT-DAE0D8, WILT-970E39, BUC-A7C7C6 andPUBLIC-31962F. One, at NCL-5D3D67, is in place on a loop with a swivel also attached, giving rise to the suggestion that this may be a specialist dog-lead buckle.

The anthropomorphic design resembles that on buckle no. 721 from Meols,and on strap clasps such as no. 901 from Meols (Griffiths et al 2007) or no. 568 from London (Egan and Pritchard 1991), or LEIC-4729D7. Date-ranges for these items are usually quoted as late 13th or 14th century.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Surrey
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
Accession number
FindID: 93097
Old ref: SUR-CFE437
Filename: 04.391b.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/42552
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/42552/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/93097
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Object location51° 17′ 30.48″ N, 0° 29′ 27.64″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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