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Description: | An incomplete, corroded and possibly burnt Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy single loop buckle (c. 475-c. 600).The pin and part of the frame, including the bar, are missing.In plan, the frame would have been an elongated oval shape and a stub of the bar reveals that it was narrowed and circular in cross-section. It is convex at the front and bevelled at the rear. On the upper face, at the centre of the outer edge, there is a recess where the pin tip rested.The frame is corroded and has active bronze disease. It has feint traces tinning and has iron staining at the outer edge. The breaks appear to be old and it may have been burnt.Length: 28.1mm; width: 34.0mm; thickness: 10.6mm. Weight: 16.51g.This buckle frame is possibly a 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, 336-337, 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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