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Description: | Copper alloy cast buckle fragment 14mm long, 3mm wide and 5mm thick, weight 1.52g. Only the bottom corner remains, this consists of a steeply curved arm that arcs round to the base, at the terminal of which has an animal head with a gaping mouth. On the head of the animal is a circular broken knop, this would have originally been a perpendicular arm that supported a strap bar. This is corroded with all detail missing the surface is heavily pitted with a dark brown colour and light green patches.
This artefact would date to the 350-500 Hawkes and Dunning, illustrate similar buckles, Figure 18 d and g for example. These buckles are classified as Type IIa.
Hawkes and Dunning, 1961, ?Soldiers and Settlers in Britain, Fourth to Fifth Century? Medieval Archaeology Vol. 5 p. 1ff. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 350
500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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