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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
A complete buckle plate and loop, missing the pin.
The buckle is cast D-shaped decorated with two raised swirling lines, possibly devolved snake heads or vines with leaves. The buckle plate is a single sheet of metal, folded around the buckle loop bar and end of a belt. It's attached with two rivets pushed from underneath which penetrate the top plate and were then hammered flat. The plate is decorated with a border of rocked graver lines. The top surface of the buckle plate has a corrosion product that preserved traces of fibres. There are traces of tinning or silvering on hte lower edge of the buckle plate, suggesting it may have originally been gilded.
There are no close parallels for the decoration of the buckle loop in Fingerlin (1971), but the general shape is dated by her to between 1250 and 1350.
Recovered from Site A, B5 pit or oven.
Site Name: Rhuddlan, Denbighshire
