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Uploaded Thursday 27th October for Wednesday 24th August 2022


While visiting the small, but interesting Curtis Museum in Alton, this impressive item, known as the ‘Alton Buckle’ caught my eye. It was found during excavations of the Mount Pleasant Anglo-Saxon cemetery in 1959-60 in the grave of a Saxon warrior.
The exquisite craftsmanship from Hampshire is amongst evidently the most beautiful Anglo-Saxon work to have been discovered outside the Sutton Hoo material from Suffolk.
“Buckles of this type were used to fasten a belt worn around the waist or hips and were the major items of male jewellery during the 6th and 7th centuries AD”