buckle
- Museum number
- ML.3980
- Description
-
Copper alloy buckle: flat oval loop with confronted animal head terminals; punched ring-and-dot decoration on top and the outer edge stepped down, with border of chip-carved triangles; faceted tongue; rectangular folded-over plate with ring-and-dot decoration (separate).
- Production date
- 4thC-5thC
- Dimensions
-
Length: 8 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Gourgançon, c. Fère-Champenoise, arr. Epernay, dép. Marne, France, 1873;ML.3978-3986 said dubiously to be from an inhumation grave; skeleton was transferred to Royal College of Surgeons in 1938
Published (the group):
SMITH R.A. 1923. A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London, p. 148
Published (the buckle):
SMITH R.A. 1923. A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London, p. 148 fig. 198
BÖHME H.W. 1974. Germanische Grabfunde des 4. bis 5. Jahrhunderts zwischen unterer Elbe und Loire. Studien zur Chronologie und Bevölkerungsgeschichte, 2 vols, Münchner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 19. Munich, vol. I, p. 317 no. 165, p. 376, vol. II, pl. 120:14
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.3980