POST ROMAN GERMANIC SWORD BELT BUCKLE, 5TH CENTURY AD

The period of the fall of Rome to the Barbarians to which this buckle belonged. See https://www.forumancientcoins.com/NumisWiki/view.asp?key=Roman%20Military%20Belts 9th image for another example lacking its tongue or keeper. This example is bronze, about 1 1/8” height of characteristic swelled form with thick hooked tongue. Sound and articulated with crusty green surface. Rare.