Late Roman buckle from Mauves-sur-Loire

Hinged buckle with a rectangular sheet-metal plate and two tongues. The plate, notched for the passage of the loop, bears a series of perforations; the loop is decorated with regularly spaced protrusions (two of which form the tongue rests) on a bar marked with deep transverse incisions.

Dating: second half of the 4th century

Found at Mauves-sur-Loire, Vieille-Cour (44)