05-24-2013, 12:29 PM
Like Robert, I've been well aware of this one for a long time and wasn't aware that it wasn't widely known.
It should be remembered that this is a hoard of silver items from all over the place, made up of bits of 50 bowls, 28 dishes, 10 pitchers, 8 other vessels and about 50 smaller objects and fragments and there's no way of knowing whether that buckle was ever worn locally or aquired somewhere else and deposited as part of the hoard.
Curle reckoned that the whole lot was the loot left by Germanic pirates and that some of the items (the buckle inlcuded) were Visigoth in origin.
It should be remembered that this is a hoard of silver items from all over the place, made up of bits of 50 bowls, 28 dishes, 10 pitchers, 8 other vessels and about 50 smaller objects and fragments and there's no way of knowing whether that buckle was ever worn locally or aquired somewhere else and deposited as part of the hoard.
Curle reckoned that the whole lot was the loot left by Germanic pirates and that some of the items (the buckle inlcuded) were Visigoth in origin.
"Medicus" Matt Bunker
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[size=150:1m4mc8o1]WURSTWASSER![/size]
