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Description: | Cast copper alloy buckle plate length 63mm, width 42mm, thickness 3mm, weight 28g. This is a rectangular plate with bevelled outside edges. There is a small roundel lug flanking the corners of the forward edge a further roundel lug in the centre of the long edge and a larger roundel on the rear corners, all have stamped ring an dot decoration. The rear edge is slightly concave with a large roundel in the centre and a smaller one to the side forming the terminal. The large roundel has a stamped foliate design the smaller roundel has a stamped ring and dot. The centre of the plate is openwork and consists three horizontal lines that comprise of two short rectangles that are flanked by a roundel at either end. Along the side of the frame at stamped squares with a cross in the centre, and at either end are a number of stamped ring a dots interspersed with the openwork. The forward edge has for evenly spaced, short cylinders that would have held a pin, this would have formed a hinge for the buckle, which is now missing.Hawkes and Dunning (1961 'Soldiers and Settlers in Britain, Fourth to Fifth Century' Medieval Archaeology Volume 5 p. 21ff.) categorises these types of buckle plates and their corresponding buckles as Type 2a which appears to most popular in Britain rather than on the Continent. The most similar example illustrated in Hawkes and Dunning is No. 6 a buckle and plate from Colchester, Essex and this example is possibly a Continental example brought to Britain by the military or is a copy made in Britain (Hawkes and Dunning, 1961; 22). Hawkes and Dunning illustrate a Continental example from a cemetery in Vermand, France which is also similar to the recorded example. These buckles and buckle plate may date to the 4th and 5th centuries.
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