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Description: | Cast copper alloy buckle with integral trapezoid plate. The semi-circular buckle loop terminates in open-jawed animal heads confronted across the hinge-bar. The buckle is somewhat worn, and no decoration is visible on the loop or plate. One of the two rivets on the end of the plate appears to have a copper alloy washer extant on the reverse. This is a continental import dating to the later 4th or early 5th century AD, and is an example of Hawkes and Dunnings' type IIIB (Hawkes and Dunning 1961). Type IIIB buckles are characterised by integral plates, and may be a post-Roman development of late Roman examples with hinged plates. Such pieces were probably manufactured in the Meuse valley in France.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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