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Description: | An incomplete buckle plate from a late Roman buckle. The plate is rectangular in shape, with slightly rounded corners. The longer sides of the outer face are decorated with two parallel grooves containing small, closely packed transverse lines. In the centre are five and a half lozenges, one above the other, all containing engraved cross-hatched lines. Each lozenge has an annulet at either side and there are two annulets either side of each join between lozenges. At the end of the plate, where the frame would have sat originally, are a further four lozenges, two on either side, each joined to one another and the main design with thin grooves. This end is divided into two tabs (the left hand one is now largely missing), with a central slot originally intended to hold a pin. Originally these strips were likely to have culminated in a second plate, which would sit parallel to the surviving one, allowing a strap to be fixed in the centre with rivets at the opposite end, and the frame and pin to sit in place at the fold. The remains of two iron rivets may still be seen in situ at the opposite end. The reverse of the plate is undecorated. A plate with similar decoration may be seen in Hawkes and Dunning (1961, pp.46-7) fig.15, p. The plate probably belongs to a type 1 buckle, but the lack of a frame makes it difficult to narrow it down further than this. These according to Hawkes (ibid., 26) probably began to be made only towards the end of the 4th century, continuing to be used well into the 5th. Debate about who would have worn such buckles continues; were they worn by soldiers and if so, which soldiers, and were they worn exclusively by men (see Leahy 2007)?Length: 57.35mm, Width: 18.90mm, Thickness: 1.64mm, Weight: 8.23g
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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