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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy mount of probable Roman date. No parallel could be found for this piece; however, it is stylistically similar to Roman belt stiffeners (see, for example, M.C. Bishop and J.C.N. Coulston; 1993; pp. 174, nos. 3, 5 and 13). A similar mount, but with a crescentic hanging section, is recorded on the PAS datbase - see BH-1D40B5. The mount recorded here may also have originally had a crescentic protrusion.
The piece consists of a sub-rectangular plate with, at each end, an inverted trapezoidal protrusion. There are two punched ring-and-dot marks, one at each end of the plate. An incised line is located adjacent to one of the long sides of the plate, extending the full length of the rectangular section. At the centre of the other long side is a short protrusion which has been broken off along the bottom edge; it is suggested that this protrusion probably extended into a hanging section (see above). On the reverse are two integral rivets of circular section; these are located one at each end of the plate and one is incomplete.
The mount measures 34.5mm long, 15.8mm wide and 9.2mm deep. The weight is 5.67g. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Watters, Julian - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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