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SAXON AND BYZANTINE BRONZE ARTEFACT COLLECTION
6TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
1/2 - 1 5/8 in. (49 grams total, 12-43 mm).

Including dagger-chape with ring finial, garter buckle, strap end and other items, among which an important specimen of buckle D33. [9, No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From old Cheshire and Nottinghamshire private collections.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Schulze-Dörrlamm, M., Byzantinische Gürtelschnallen und Gürtelbeschläge im Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum: Die Schnallen ohne Beschläg, mit Laschenbeschläg und mit festem Beschläg des 5. bis 7. Jahrhunderts, Heidelberg, 2024 (Kataloge Vor- und Frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer, Band 30, 2), pp.219 and fig.214ff. for the Eastern Roman buckle type D33.

FOOTNOTES:
Type D33 of Eastern Roman buckles, dated to the second half of 6th century A.D., is formed with a solid, narrow, and long triangular fitting, which extends at the corners and is decorated with punched circular eyes. It has a triangular opening in the middle, and two transversely positioned pins on the underside. Their flat, oval bow, which widens towards the drift pin, is fitted with a stool-shaped thorn.

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