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Description: | The outer edge of a cast Roman buckle frame, measuring 47.2mm in width and 19.5mm in length.
The outer edge of this buckle is shaped and two facing dolphins are represented in side profile. Each dolphin is incomplete, where its tail begins, due to old breaks. Their mouths are open and they hold an oval shaped 'ball' in between them. The dolphins are well executed on the front face of this buckle frame and have flattened crests with small evenly spaced transverse grooves on them. Their eyes are shown as circular indentations. Covering the whole of the front face of both dolphins and the central ball there are tiny ring motifs, which seem to be arranged in roughly six longitudinal rows across the dolphins and three vertical rows down the central 'ball.' The front face is rounded and the back face is hollow.
This buckle frame is very similar to one discovered in Leicester in its Roman town of Ratae Coritanorum. This has been classified by Hawkes and Dunning (1961 50-53, fig 17, i) as type 11A, the design is identical and a spherical 'ball' is held inbetween the dolphins in their open mouths as in this example. Although the discovery circumstances and stratigraphy of this parallel are unknown these buckle frames are believed to be late Roman in date. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 300
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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