buckle
- Museum number
- ML.3385
- Description
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Iron belt buckle-plate: circular with folded flap attachment originally; silver inlay imitating all-over cloisonné decoration: stepped and ladder-pattern borders around central quatrefoil; three domed-head copper alloy attachment rivets with milled collars; remains of tongue with basal shield.
- Production date
- 7thC
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 3.90 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
St. Loup, c. Sézanne, arr. Epernay, dép. Marne, France, 1870; from a cemetery (see also MS Album, vol. 1, pl. 39)
MS Album reference:
MOREL L. and GASTEBOIS E. n.d., Matériaux pour l'histoire de la Champagne Souterraine, ou 30 années de fouilles archéologiques dans la Marne, 1862-1892, vol. 1: Epoque gauloise; vol. 2: Epoques diverses. Unpublished MSS in the Bibliothèque Carnegie (shelfmarks: CH.G.63-64), Reims
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.3385