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Description: | Fragment of copper alloy Roman buckle frame of Hawkes and Dunning type IIA. It consists of a human head in the jaws of an incomplete dolphin decorated with fine punchwork. The frame is D-shaped in section, being flat on the underside. The head measures 12mm long and max.8.2mm wide. It is decorated with fine vertical lines for hair and two tiny punched circles with curving lines top and bottom for eyes. The head is the thickest part of the frame and is mounted on an area over which the open jaws of the surviving dolphin lie (and the tips of the missing dolphin's jaws). The surviving dolphin is decorated with a large ring-and-dot eye and triangular punches. Its crest is set slightly lower than the body and defined by a groove and diagonal grooves along the outside edge. The fragment measures 33.9 x 14.8x(max) 5mm and weighs 9.07g. It survives to a length of c.21mm. Breaks are old. Dates c.330-380 onwards.
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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