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Description: | A late Roman cast copper-alloy buckle plate of Hawkes and Dunning type IIA (Hawkes and Dunning 1961, 50-55, fig 18, no a and i).This buckle plate is rectangular, 47mm in length and 40mm in width. It has four pierced loops at the attachment end with the remains of an iron bar through them, these loops would have fitted into others at the inner edge of the buckle frame and they would have been locked together by the iron bar. The loops are decorated with horizontal grooves. The plate has open work decoration consisting of three arches, two parallel ones nearest to the outside edge and one larger one below these, nearer the inside edge of the plate, each arch has a forward facing human head projecting into it from the lower straight bar. Each head has two circular indentations representing eyes and a straight groove representing the mouth, they also have varying scored diagonal lines across the faces and down the sides of the heads. Above the two smaller parallel arches at the inside edge is a further fan-shaped hole flanked by two circular holes. There are also three ring and dot indentations beneath the two parallel arches one at either end and one central one, there is also another ring and dot motif beneath the larger arch. There are small transverse grooves along the edges of the plate and in each corner of the plate there is a rounded projection, there are also transverse grooves beneath the loops of the inside edge and along the outside edge. There are circular rivet holes with the remains of corroded iron within and surrounding it in each corner of the plate. Other examples of Roman buckle plates with human heads on them are known and shown on www.lateromanbuckles.org.uk/
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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