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Description: | Cast copper alloy zoomorphic buckle, a variant of Hawkes and Dunnings' Type IIIB. The buckle has an oval loop, with open-jawed animal heads confronting eachother across the hinge-bar. Unusually a further pair of open-jawed animal heads is present on opposite sides of the buckle loop. On the front of the buckle frame a zone between these heads, decorated with a series of transverse grooves, forms a wide pin rest. Rather than a solid integral plate, as is typical with most examples of type IIIB buckles, this buckle has a further pair of open-jawed animal heads projecting at right angles from the hinge bar; they in turn are joined by a strap-bar. The copper alloy buckle tongue has a darker green patina than the buckle itself. Hawkes and Dunning (1961) suggested that buckles type IIIB were a one-piece development of hinged late Roman type IIIA buckles and that they were probably manufactured during the early to mid-5th century in the Meuse valley.
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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