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Description: | Incomplete copper-alloy buckle and buckle plate of late Roman date. Only a short length of the sub-oval sectioned copper-alloy strap bar of the actual buckle survives in situ within the fold of the buckle plate. The buckle plate consists of a single sheet of rectangular copper-alloy folded in half to form a sub-square shaped front and back plate. The hinge part of the plate has square cut-outs to the top, middle and bottom edges to allow for the sides of the buckle frameand the pin (now missing). The outer edge of the buckle plate has a circular-sectioned copper-alloy rivet through each corner. The reverse of the plate is plain and the front carries a geometric design of a square within a square and within this four inscribed Xs each separated by a central cross. Brown-orange corrosion on the front and back of the plate indicate that the plate was coated, possibly tinned or silvered. Buckle plates of this type were in use during the later Roman period and this one is dated c.300-410 in line with others already on the PAS database.A near identical buckle plate is published in Appels & Laycock's 'Roman Buckles and Military Fittings', p.222.
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