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An incomplete buckle of late Roman date. Military style buckle probably dating from the late 4th to early 5th century AD. The object has been cast in one piece and has an integral plate and loop. The plate is rectangular and is of an openwork design. It is incomplete but originally had four vertical rectangular cells separated by moulded columns. The horizontal bottom edge of the plate is now largely missing but appears to have had decorative concave incisions. Above the rectangular cells are four horizontally aligned openwork circles and, above these, a narrow horizontal band with a lipped top edge and concave vertical edges. The D-shaped loop adjoins the horizontal upper edge of the plate. It measures 23.4mm wide by 15.5mm high deep and is undecorated apart from a single punched ring and dot at each of the two points where it joins the plate. Four further ring and dot marks adorn the upper part of the buckle plate. Three corroded iron attachments aligned horizontally near to the top edge of the buckle plate are probably the remains of a pin attachment. The reverse of the buckle is plain. Overall, the object measures 49.2mm high by 33.3mm wide and 2.5mm thick. It weighs 11.69g.

• Hawkes S C and Dunning G C, 1961 Soldiers and Settlers in Britain, fourth to fifth century: with a catalogue of animal-ornamented buckles and related belt-fittings, 5, pp..

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Created: Wednesday 19th January 2005
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011