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Description: | Buckle
Roman 4th century
Length 21mm, width 28mm, thickness 3mm
Two dolphins facing/confronting each other with their mouths open, gripping the same lozenge shaped object which has a recess for the pin, these form the outside edge of the buckle frame. The bodies narrow and curve around to form the sides of the frame, which then simply merges into the strap bar, which is narrowed.
The decoration is finely worked, annulet eyes have been cut in to the buckle with a series of crescents running down the both sides emanating from the eye, there is a crest on the back of each beast that has a serrated outer edge/crest and dots running along its base, the detail for the mouth has been chip carved.
The artefact has a mid-dark brown patina it is in very good condition with almost all of its which is its original surface remaining.
These buckles, according to similar examples that have been discovered at sites such as Colchester, are believed to date to the late Roman period and thought to be military in origin; they are defined as buckle type IIA (Hawkes and Dunning 1961, 50-55, fig 17). | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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