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Description: | Part of a Late Roman to early Medieval copper-alloy single-loop buckle with integral plate. The symmetrical frame is roughly 'D-shaped' and takes the form of two crested dolphin-like animals whose open mouths frame a lozenge-shaped central pin rest. The frame has flat surfaces and angled edges. The crests of the animals, located on top of their heads, are well defined, extending to a point. Little attempt has been made, however, to portray any surface detail, with the exception of a possible ring-and-dot eye on the left hand animal. The now-bent wire pin is loosely looped around a constriction located at the centre of the plate end of the frame. Little survives of this integral plate, but that which does remain indicates that it probably had two openwork elements flanking a central column. On the reverse of the plate, located centrally, is an integrally cast rivet with a deliberately flattened point. Dimensions: 26mm long, 26.9mm wide, 3.3mm thick. Weight: 8.35g.This buckle can be classified as a Hawkes and Dunning Type IIB and is typical of the so-called 'Soldiers and settlers' material of the late 4th to early 5th century (Hawkes and Dunning 1961).
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