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Description: | A cast copper alloy triangular buckle plate, with buckle surviving intact. The back plate from the buckle plate survives as a separate artefact. The buckle and plate are heavily corroded so little detail can be seen and the entire original surface has been lost. The metal has gone a mid blue-green. The buckle plate has three rivet holes in a terminal lobe and two projecting side lugs. The two side lug rivet holes are now empty, but the terminal hole retains an iron rivet. The rivet holes match those on the back plate. The buckle is an undecorated D-shaped buckle. It has been attached to the plate via a lip of copper alloy extending from the buckle plate, around the D-shaped buckle before folded beneath itself on the reverse of the plate. The pin remains intact and in situ corroded to the buckle. The pin has been joined to the upper surface of the buckle plate via a cooking pot shaped plate of copper alloy. At the widest point of the buckle plate, two copper alloy rivets remain in situ in the corners of the triangle. Just down from these are the side lugs. Under all the corrosion there does some to be some evident of silvering or a coating an applied lacquer. The interior of the reverse of the buckle plate housing what appears to be the corroded remains of leather, wood or cloth. The organic material is a dark greeny-blue colour suggesting that it has absorbed the copper alloy corrosion product. The folds of material survive in a corrugated form. The traces of material are only evident in the widest part of the buckle plate, next to the buckle. The back plate is triangular is shape and even more corroded than the front plate. The plate is very thin and only measures 0.62mm in thickness. The buckle dates to the early 7th century and is therefore Anglo-Saxon in date. Similar buckles can be seen in EAA Report No. 84 (see full reference below) and Richardson (2005) (see full reference below).
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