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LOT 1742
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]
ProvenanceFrom old Cheshire and Nottinghamshire private collections.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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.
FootnotesType 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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Including dagger-chape with ring finial, garter buckle, strap end and other items, among which an important specimen of buckle D33. 49 grams total, 12-43 mm
From old Cheshire and Nottinghamshire private collections. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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.