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Description: | A cast copper-alloy buckle with an integral triangular plate, from a Roman military belt. The frame and plate are made in one piece; the plate is sub-triangular in shape with an openwork triangle in the centre, below the D-shaped frame. The apex of the triangular plate has a flat circular terminal. Both the outer edge of the plate and the inner edge of the triangular perforation are bevelled, and in between is decoration of linear grooves. The short edge, where the plate is attached to the frame, has a central hole now blocked with iron corrosion from the remains of the pin. At either end of this short edge is a circular attachment hole, 2 mm in diameter; there is a third attachment hole in the apex lobe. The reverse is flat and undecorated.H. W. Böhme studied buckles of this type as part of his survey of late Roman artefacts in Britain, and the settlement of England by the earliest Anglo-Saxons (Böhme 1986, Liste 1, Abb. 5, Abb. 14). He dated them to the middle or second half of the 4th century and his map shows that they are found in small numbers not only in England and South Wales but also along the European frontier of the Roman Empire, along the Rhine and Danube rivers.Similar examples of Roman military buckles with triangular plates are illustrated at www.netmarshall.co.uk/triangular_plate.htm; in addition, a very similar example can be seen on the PAS database at GLO-FA9938, and two others with kidney- or heart-shaped frames at LIN-6312A0 and ESS-E52552.
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