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Description: | A copper-alloy ??propeller-shaped?? object, now incomplete and measuring 38 x 28mm. One edge of the ??propeller?? is the conventional shape for a late Roman belt-stiffener (cf. Hawkes and Dunning 1961), but it has a 2mm diameter rivet hole in each corner, rather than in a more conventional position in the middle. The other, incomplete, edge is distinctly different. The upper corner is incomplete, but the lower corner clearly extended into an integral plate. The rounded centre again has a rectangular extension to one side. Down the middle, from top to bottom, are two rows of rocker pattern; in the rounded centre, at the widest part of the object, are a pair of punched circles similar in size to the rivet holes. There is another similar punched circle in the surviving corner of the incomplete edge, and they look rather like dummy rivets.
Propeller-shaped mounts are a well-known, if uncommon, component of the late Roman military belt. This object, however, is better compared with HAMP1620, a belt fitting (perhaps a buckle) which has a propeller-shaped terminal linked by three bars running from top, bottom and centre. Propeller-shaped mounts were used from the mid fourth to perhaps the mid fifth century, when they are occasionally found in early Anglo-Saxon graves. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyrrell, Ros - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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