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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Late Roman buckle frame of Hawkes and Dunning type IIA (1961, fig.17-18), missing its iron axis bar and pin. The frame consists of two confronted dolphins with open jaws holding between them a single lozenge. Their bodies curve outwards and downwards before curling inwards again, their tails curving almost back in on themselves. The ends of the tail are trifurcated. At the bottom most part of the frame, where each tail begins to curl back on itself, two D-shaped lugs extend downwards (the straight edge against the frame). Each has a single central piercing c.2mm in diameter and is surrounded with iron staining, where an iron bar would have passed through. This would have accommodated the missing pin (although iron staining is present on the 'lozenge' which presumably doubled-up as a restriction for the pin, and also around the tails, suggesting it was at least as thick as the gap between them - 3.1mm) and also the buckle plate. The buckle is flattish on its underside but still quite rounded. The decorated face is rounded. The open jaws are further defined by crude grooves, the eyes by a single deep punch (1mm diameter). The crests of the dolphins do not stand high (2mm), and are thinner at 1.7mm thick compared to the head at 3.8mm thick. They are decorated with diagonal incised lines. One tail, the other being obscured by iron staining, is decorated with three grooves either side of the central ridge of the tail. Measures 37.4x41.4x4.4mm (internal 18x31.5mm) and weighs 14.87g.
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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