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English: Late Roman cast copper alloy buckle with integral triangular plate. The buckle loop is complete and trapezoidal in section but the pin is missing but the oval hole through which it passed can be seen. The sides of the loop continue without interruption into the sides of the plate. The plate is triangular and cast integrally with the loop and is flat backed. At the strap end of the plate it tapers to a point with a rivet through it. At the loop end, just below the beginning of the buckle frame on each side, the sides curve out in a semi circle around, complete on one side, damaged on the other. In the middle of the plate another rivet hole. The plate is decorated with pairs of incised lines that form two saltires separated by a line. The design is slightly obscured by surface wear. The edges of the plate have slightly irregular V-shaped notched along the two long edges. There is some corrosion visible on the edges of the reverse of the object

Buckles with integral triangular plates are found in the late Roman period and continue into the early Early Medieval period (c.350-700 AD). However the way the line of the plate continues into the loop with no indenting or exanpansions seems more similar to late Roman examples (e.g. Appels and Laycock (2007:228) no.SL 10.27 a and b).