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Description: | Cast copper alloy belt stud with a damaged flat panel perimeter and a raised stylised vulva in the centre of a convex oval upper face. The convex oval is hollow on the reverse with a shank with flattened head above and below it. Some mounts of this type have been found with an integral suspension loop for hanging a pendant at the base. An example of such a find comes from Niederbieber, now in the Landesmuseum, Bonn, and dated from the mid 2nd century to circa AD 260 (Oldenstein 1976, 137, 138, Taf. 34, no. 268); another is now in the archaeological collections at Vienne (Isere) (Boucher 1971, 211, no, 868 with pl.). British examples include a piece from Saham Toney, Norfolk (Brown 1986, 44, fig. 28, no. 199), and two others without suspension loop similar to this find from Brough-on-Humber (Wacher 1969, 89, fig. 38, no.19) and an unpublished piece from York Minster 1971. Another close parallel was found in an unstratified context during excavations at the civil settlement at Caerleon (Evans 2000, p375, fig. 91, no.149. This style of belt fitting are often classed as military belt fittings.
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