buckle
- Museum number
- 1987,0508.1
- Description
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Belt-buckle; copper alloy; large sub-rectangular plate decorated with two open-work figures praying, hands raised in orans gesture; ribbed rectangular loop; tongue: broad basal shield; incised borders and ornaments; four domed-head pseudo-rivets.
- Production date
- 550-650
- Dimensions
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Height: 4.90 centimetres
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Length: 10.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Modern drill hole in back of loop; the two figures are perhaps Sts Peter and Paul, or Adam and Eve driven from Paradise - cf Cabrol & Leclercq vol 1, cols 511-12, fig 98, and vol 12/2, figs 8971-2 - although the figures on the BM buckle are clothed. It may be further compared with an example from Beneuvre, Côte-d'Or (in private coll; pers. comm. R. Poulain).
- Location
- On display (G41/dc18/sA)
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1987,0508.1
