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Description: | Copper alloy Roman zoomorphic belt buckle loop and separate pin. The hinged buckle plate has been lost apart from one fragment of hinge. The buckle has an oval loop with confronted dolphin heads at the top of the loop. The open mouths of the dolphins form two circular piercings either side of an oval central area carved with an abstract design. The buckle is wider above the heads of the dolphins, with recessed fins running from above the head to part way down the back of the dolphins. Each dolphin has an incised circular eye. There are three incised lines across the frame at the longest part of the loop and two parallel to the lower lines nearer the buckle plate. The frame is truncated between the two protruding hinge loops in order to accommodate the pin. These terminals are also zoomorphic, with an open mouth and eye indicated. The back of the buckle loop is flat.
The pin is solid with a rounded pierced loop which tapers to a triangular-sectioned pin. At the tip of the pin there is a decorative section before a curved channel. The same decorative motif is located where the pin loop flattens before the shaft of the pin. The three hinge plates of the buckle loop and the pin would have been connected by a bar, now lost.
This buckle is of a late fourth century type known in Britain and North-Western Europe. For comparison see Clarke 1979, 274 fig. 92.
References: Bishop, M C and Coulston, J C N Roman Military Equipment, from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome [pages: 175 ref: 6]
Clarke, Giles The Roman Cemetery at Lankhills Winchester Studies 3 Oxford [pages: 274 ref: 92] | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ghey, Eleanor - British Museum | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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