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BUCKLE
Unique ID: SUR-3FA27D
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy buckle plate, probably of Roman date. The buckle plate is slender at 9mm and is 46mm long and has a long pin slot. The folded over lower plate is held in place by a single rivet and only extends half the length of the top plate. The top plate is decorated with two groups of punched feather-like chevrons; the two groups are separated by a group of eight narrow transverse grooves.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 46.1 mm
Width: 9 mm
Weight: 2.78 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: B14-766
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Moulsford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU5883
Four figure Latitude: 51.54292534
Four figure longitude: -1.16504412
1:25K map: SU5883
1:10K map: SU58SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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