Archaeologia
Cantiana - Vol. 69 1955 page 34 |
of any developed shields on the tongues of the buckles from Lyminge
suggests that none of the buckles is later than about A.D. 600 and that
many are probably nearer A.D. 550. |
Envermeau2
and at Herpes3 and
both these examples show –U- shaped cuttings of the inlays. Similar
shaped cloison bars can be found on a brooch from Concevreux, dept Aisne4,
and on grave furniture from the Tomb of Childeric. There is a
kidney-shaped attachment-plate, roughly cloisonné-set, from Amiens in
the British Museum5, Much
of this coarse cloisonné work is reminiscent of Vandal work of the
fifth century A.D. and the rectangular attachment-plate of a large
buckle from a Vandal grave at Bone, Algeria, in the British Museum6,. |
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