06-17-2013, 12:10 PM
Laudes Robert. So it looks like those buckles were made in limes factories in the first half of the 5th century. Especially in Pannonia, but possibly in Germania and Gaul aswell? Maybe this kind of buckle was originally for the limitanei units. That would explain why a similar shape but with Quoit Brooch decoration found its way on the Tractus armoricanus. We may have the last generation of late roman buckles in the west?
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
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Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
