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Description: | A damaged and incomplete late Roman buckle frame, classified as a Hawkes and Dunning Type IIA (1961, 50ff.). It consists of a pair of confronted dolphins whose tails, when complete, would have made involuted terminals. One curved terminal now survives, as does the perforated circular lug (Th.: 4.35mm) that protrudes at right angles from below it; this would have retained the axis bar. One the other side of the buckle a break has meant that the terminal and lug are missing; the buckle has been bent upwards at the break.
Between the dolphin's heads is a flat lozengiform field. On the upper surface this contains an incised cruciform shape within a border. The dolphin heads are moulded in low relief, with open snouts. Attaining the same height as the field are the creatures' ?ears. The animals have engraved eyes and punched dots the lengths of their bodies. Instead of crests there are protrusions on each side of the buckle in the form of a bird. They are divided from the dolphins' bodies by an incised line. The lower surface of the buckle is flat and undecorated. The buckle has corroded to a variable mid-green colour with some patches of dark green/black patina.
This buckle is similar to one from Norfolk illustrated in Appels and Laycock (2007, 204; ref. SL7.12). Appels and Laycock have argued that buckles with bird protrusions are commonly found in the area inhabited by the Iron Age Corieltauvi, while the 'dot style' decoration was characteristic of the Catuvellauni. | Subjects: | Hawkes and Dunning Type IIA | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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