2024-03-29T06:19:49+00:00https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/118394/format/qrcodehttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/118394/format/jsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/118394/format/xmlhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/118394/format/geojsonhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/118394/format/pdfhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/118394/format/rdfhttps://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/118394118394CAM-280C0000143C281AD01CABBUCKLEplateHawkes and Dunning Type IIA162311ROMAN350450A fragment of a copper-alloy buckle plate dating to the Roman period. The fragment comprises the attachment end, with three D-sectioned hinge loops. The loops are decorated with longitudinal grooves around their outer ends, and have circular perforations obscured and filled with iron corrosion from a separate bar onto which the pin and buckle frame would originally have been hinged. The loops extend from a flat openwork plate with arched perforations bordered by two surviving projections, each one behind a loop and ending in a three-pronged fork. The projection behind the third loop is missing, and the plate is damaged at both ends, appearing originally to have extended widthwise towards further loops and with further arched perforations. The fragment has a length of 16mm and a surviving width of 23mm.
This buckle plate is Roman, of Hawkes and Dunning's type IIA, with a particularly close parallel from Caistor-by-Norwich (Hawkes and Dunning 1961, fig. 17g). It can be compared with several others on the PAS database: SF-DD6561, NARC-5E9CA2, KENT378 and SUR-00DEF4. This type of buckle plate starts in the middle of the fourth century and is still occasionally found in fifth-century Anglo-Saxon graves.
It is superficially similar to the medieval buckle plates NMS-61E218, NLM-53B266 and IOW-969AE4, but these all have two hinge loops.2006-01-09 15:30:532012-12-10 13:20:29312005-11-011Certain11214700143C281AD01CAB71CAMCopper alloy10627FragmentROMANROx41218p0gjgrs69wsEARLY MEDIEVALEMx41022p0gjgrshhcwMetal detector11806613861273130341425TL4151TL4151TL45SW52.1393080.058914610088572romanbeltfitting.jpg43324Roman belt fittingThe Portable Antiquities Scheme5images/pjw/EasternCharacter undeterminedCultivated landEuropean RegionCountyCambridgeshireDistrictSouth CambridgeshireCivil Parish52.14080.085211HarstonReturned to finder96667