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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman buckle plate. This buckle plate is rectangular in plan, though damage means that the frame of the plate is incomplete, and subcircular in section, meaning that the reverse of the plate is flat, whilst the front is slightly curved. The surviving length of the plate is 47.72mm, it is 37.38mm wide, 5.48mm thick and it weighs 25.19g. The plate is formed from a rectangular frame with the edges chamfered at about 45 degrees. Only one long section of the frame survives to any length, and the chamfered edge is decorated with pairs of incised lines that form a rough V shape, without meeting at a point, with the narrower end facing the main body of the plate. Similarly only one short section of frame survives with a slight chamfer. Here the edge is decorated with cross-hatching. The opposite short section of the frame is entirely missing and the opposite long section of the frame has broken away, leaving an abraded edge. Within the frame is open fretwork, that has suffered damage. Six circular holes can be viewed along the surviving long section of the plate, along with a more even, smaller hole, presumably used for fixing the plate to a belt. In one corner of the surviving short section is another fixing hole, as well as three holes in a trefoil arrangement. Otherwise the fretwork is damaged, so that distinct holes are no longer visible, just 'stalks' of metalwork, with slight spring arches where the circles would have formed. The reverse of the buckle plate is flat and plain. The patina of the object is mostly light green, but sections of even, dark green do survive. There are tiny traces of what appears to be gilding to the front of the buckle plate. The damaged edges are light green in colour and smoothed over, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. An examples of a buckle plate can be found in Coulston, 1988, Military Equipment and the Identity of Roman Soldiers, page 227, fig.5, number 52a.3.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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