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Description: | An incomplete Late Roman/ Early Early-Medieval (AD 350-450) copper alloy openwork military buckle plate of Hawkes and Dunning Type IIa, missing most of one long edge and part of one short edge. It measures 46.23x21.28x(max)5.03mm and weighs 9.51g.At the complete short end are two wide loops, each engraved with a line flanking both edges. These are c.5mm wide, 5.05mm thick, with an internal piercing c.2mm in diameter.Extending behind the loops is a rectangular plate (3.14mm thick) with two openwork panels beyond a plate with two keyhole-shaped apertures. These have a rivet hole (1.50mm diameter) on the frame to either side (one retains an iron rivet). Beyond is a rectangular opening, narrowing at the far end with angled internal projections to create the base of a trefoil openwork shape, defined further along the frame with additional but smaller internal projections in the form of a trefoil itself. The far edge is missing one corner, but that which survives has a knop with an in situ iron rivet c.2mm in diameter. The end of the openwork trefoil is slightly rounded, as is the trefoil moulding on the central stem of the plate.The surviving central and outside stem are flat to the underside and faceted, almost curving, on the upper face.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 be most popular in Britain rather than on the Continent.
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