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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy trefoil buckle pin of possible Roman date. The terminal end of the pin loop is missing due to old breaks, but the pin is otherwise complete. It is D-shaped in section with flat back and rounded front face. At one end extends the incomplete rectangular pin loop, which curves to a central sub-rectangular panel. From either side of the panel extends prongs that curve outwards to rounded crescent shaped terminal ends. Between the prongs extends the pin itself, which is triangular in form, tapering to a pointed tip. The entire object measures 26.14mm in length, 30.01mm in width, 2.47mm in thickness, and 2.85g in weight.This appears to be an incomplete copepr-alloy buckle pin of probable Roman date. Similar pins from complete buckles are noted in Bishop and Coulston (1993: p. 175 no. 3) and Hawkes and Dunning (1961: fig. 17) but with the side loops turning inwards towards the attachment end rather than towards the pointed tip of the pin. A near idential parallel is also noted from Suffolk (SF-8DC335). These suggest a likely Roman date for the object and probable function as a buckle pin, c.1st-4th centuries AD.
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