Ca. 500-600 AD.A silver belt buckle with a D-shaped loop with nicely outlined opposing animal heads, a curved tongue, and a heart-shaped plate with red insets. At the time of the fall of the Roman Empire, other cultures began to evolve, grow and eventually prosper and their culture and art thrived. The Merovingians (476-750 AD) were one such group and they are traditionally reckoned as the "first race” of the kings of France.Size: L:38mm / W:58mm ; 27.59gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s