SAXON SILVER RING AND BRONZE BUCKLE 5th century AD. A broad belt buckle comprising a folded plate with openwork rear edge and Late Roman Military Style punched-point vinescroll decoration, secured with three rivets; the loop segmented with animal-mask detailing on the couch; the tongue flat with serpent-head finial and incised saltire; offered with a 8th-9th century segmented ring with ropework decoration around the circumference. Silver (ring), 2.15 grams, 21 mm external diameter (approximate size UK Q½, USA 8½, Europe 18.12, Japan 17); buckle 18.2 grams, 44 mm. Very fine condition, complete. Provenance Ex Aston collection. Literature Oman, CC. Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Rings, 1930, item 227; Marzinzik, S. Early Anglo-Saxon Belt Buckles (late 5th to early 8th centuries) Their Classification and Context, plate 75 (Alfriston, Droxford).
SAXON SILVER RING AND BRONZE BUCKLE 5th century AD. A broad belt buckle comprising a folded plate with openwork rear edge and Late Roman Military Style punched-point vinescroll decoration, secured with three rivets; the loop segmented with animal-mask detailing on the couch; the tongue flat with serpent-head finial and incised saltire; offered with a 8th-9th century segmented ring with ropework decoration around the circumference. Silver (ring), 2.15 grams, 21 mm external diameter (approximate size UK Q½, USA 8½, Europe 18.12, Japan 17); buckle 18.2 grams, 44 mm. Very fine condition, complete. Provenance Ex Aston collection. Literature Oman, CC. Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Rings, 1930, item 227; Marzinzik, S. Early Anglo-Saxon Belt Buckles (late 5th to early 8th centuries) Their Classification and Context, plate 75 (Alfriston, Droxford).
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