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Description: | Roman copper-alloy openwork harness mount, 2nd century AD. This mount is in a trumpet-pattern design and it is rectangular shape with four studs on reverse for attachment to leather. It measures 40mm by 27mm. Mounts with this Trompetenmuster design are found throughout the Roman Empire, including Britain. They seem to have originated in the products of a 'factory' established at Baden-Argau in Switzerland, which, during the first century AD, produced scabbard ornaments and chapes as well as circular harness mounts. These harness mounts spread into Germany, Gaul, Austria, northern Italy and Britain in the wake of the Roman Army's advance. The disc-shaped mounts were copied locally, and British producers were particularly influenced by versions from the Rhineland. This example was probably made in Britain. See Frere, S. S. 1947. Roman Canterbury, page 18, figs. 6, 7; MacGregor, M. 1976. Early Celtic Art in North Britain, I, pp 186-9. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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