trial_description_8:
Only plate preserved.
The eye half of the buckle; flat, trapezoidal, with a long rectangular hole at broad end and two small circular holes beside it. At narrow end are two pierced projections for the pin which held the cloth or leather. Incised decoration on the face; a groove along the short end; diagonal nicks along the sides, and three dotted circles between the long eye and the two holes.
Avar.
bibliography:
Pallas (1954), pp. 356-358, 384, pl. 66, no. Iδ.
Speculum 25 (1950), pp. 502-543, pl. opp.p. 523 (no number) (Setton, K. M.).