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Description: | A copper alloy ring buckle of Roman date, probably from the 3rd century. The circular frame is circular in section and parts of the frame are decorated with transverse grooves on the upper face only. The terminals are corroded and damaged; one survives better but the other is missing. The surviving terminal appears to turn outwards with a flattened projection, and to have a circular setting on the corner with possible white paste or cement surviving within it.The buckle has a smooth brown patina, but some of the original surface is missing. The pin is also absent.The finder suggests a brooch on UKDFD (number 8100) as a parallel, but Rebecca Griffiths (North and East Yorkshrie FLO) suggests YORYM-6ECD57 as a parallel and adds that "Similar examples are illustrated in Appels and Laycock (2007), p.107-8 in which it is stated that "the ring buckle was a 3rd century development due to the fashion of wearing a broad waist belt.""The buckle is 40.1mm in diameter, 3.9mm thick and weighs 7.16g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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