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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman buckle of Hawkes and Dunning (1961) Type IIA. Only part of the attachment end of the plate is preserved, the remainder of the object now missing due to old breaks. The surviving fragment is flat, rectangular in form and has the remains of openwork decoration. This comprises the remains of four circular apertures at the attachment end, from which run the remains of four rectangular perforations, all now incomplete due to old breaks. A single copper-alloy(?) rivet is present at the one complete corner of the plate, with a second possible rivet or rivet hole at the centre of the attachment end. The entire object has a worn green patina and measures 35.87mm in width (incomplete), 23.36mm in length (incomplete), 1.70mm in thickness and 5.93g in weight. This buckle is of Late Roman type, the plate form and decorative elements indicating it belongs to Hawkes and Dunning's Type IIA buckles (Hawkes and Dunning, 1961: figs. 17-18, 19bis). These are typically related to Roman military activity and date to the 4th century AD.
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