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Description: | A cast copper-alloy buckle frame with integral plate of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. The buckle frame is oval shaped in form, the inner edge of the frame/bar curving inwards to give an almost kidney shape. At the centre of the bar is an oval shaped perforation through which is a cast copper-alloy pin that is rectangular in form and square in section, tapering to a down curving point that extends beyond the outer edge of the frame. The integral plate is triangular in form, tapering towards the open end. It has prominent triangular shoulders and at the open end has an integral circular terminal knop. The plate is flat and on its back face has three integral but incomplete loops, two positioned at the shoulders and one on the back face of the knop. This buckle measures 13.45mm in width/height at frame, 22.34mm in length, 1.69mm in thickness at plate (3.65mm including rivets), and weighs 2.01g.This buckle is similar in form to Marzinzik's Type II.23b-ii buckle frames (Marzinzik, 2003: pp. 50) as well as examples from Coddenham and Barham, Suffolk (West, 1998: nos. 4.20, 21.3). However, it differs from these parallels through the presence of attachment loops rather than rivets, and in this respect appears closer to an example from Barham (West, 1998: no. 4.19) that has attachment lugs/loops on the back face. It is of Early-Medieval date, probably belonging in the 6th-7th centuries AD.
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