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Description: | An incomplete and corroded Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy single loop buckle (c. 475-c. 600).The pin is missing.In plan, the frame is an elongated oval shape and has a narrowed bar. The upper face is convex and the lower face is flat. The lower face is bevelled internally. On the upper face of the outer edge it is worn where the pin tip has made contact.The bar is circular in cross-section.The frame is corroded and has active bronze disease. It has traces of a darker green patina and feint traces of tinning. There is iron staining on the bar.Length: 28.6mm; width: 36.0mm; thickness: 9.1mm; maximum diameter of bar: 5.8mm. Weight: 24.04g.This buckle frame is of Marzinzik's Type 1.5b, with massive oval frame and narrowed bar. Such buckles are most common in south-eastern England and date from the late fifth or sixth centuries AD (Marzinzik 2003, 23-24, 335-337, and plates 13-15).Marzinzik, S. 2003. Early Anglo-Saxon belt buckles (late 5th to early 8th centuries A.D.): their classification and context. BAR British series 357
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