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Description: | A Late Roman/ Early Early-Medieval (AD 350-450) copper alloy openwork military buckle plate of Hawkes and Dunning Type IIa, complete except for its rivets. It is roughly square in shape and measures 31.25mm long and 32.46mm wide.One edge is thickened (max.4.34mm thick) with a curved and pierced outer edge and four equidistant rectangular cut-outs along its length, creating as a result four loops. These is for the attachment of the missing frame and axis bar. The loops have some old damage but are complete.Behind these project the plate, c.2.3mm thick with a c.2.5mm diameter rivet hole at each corner (and behind the loops at the thickened edge). One of the rivet holes on the thinner edge has worn through.The openwork plate is decorated with three apertures, in shape a central square with a circle extending from two opposing edges. These are slightly countersunk on one face, presumably the facing side of the plate, and the narrow rectangle between two triangles (the resulting shapes of the metal between the apertures) is thinned. The reverse at this same point shows a loss of patina in a line stretching from edge to edge transversely across the plate (if viewed with the thickened loop edge to either right or left).The patina is a mid-green in colour with a slight shine. Where it has been lost, it is a purple-brown in colour.The buckle plate measures 31.25x32.46x(max)4.34mm and weighs 10.04g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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