Ceramic
MEDIEVAL BUCKLE
Incomplete Medieval gilt buckle plate, rectangular, attachment end pierced by two rivet-holes, other end broken across loops where recessed for frame and with pin-slot, decorated with a lion passant guardant on an enamelled field within engraved bordering line, enamel missing and further rivet-hole through lions head, 30 x 19mm. Very stylised, almost art deco, lion. Cf. broadly similar but un-enamelled type in Dress Accessories (2002), fig.72, no.500. 13th century.
The Portable Antiquities Scheme, via Europeana.