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Description: | A complete copper-alloy late Roman propeller-shaped belt stiffener. The stiffener is flat in cross-section, 42.2mm in length and 19.5mm wide and a maximum of 3.8 mm thick. It has two triangular ends, each with a circular perforation for attachment near each corner, and a small V-shaped nick between the hole and the corner. There is a sub-circular central lobe. A raised longitudinal rib runs almost the whole length of the mount, petering out to top and bottom, and this has a narrow central longitudinal groove. A decorative ring-and-dot motif is punched into the mount six times, two pairs of three set equidistantly down the mount on either side of the rib. One pair is on each triangular end and one pair is on the central lobe. The reverse is flat and undecorated.
Propeller-shaped stiffeners are associated with late Roman military belt sets. A stiffener decorated similarly from Carrawburgh, Northumberland is dated to the early 5th century AD (D.J. Breeze, Arch. Aeliana 50, 1972, 137 fig. 16, 166) and a set of four stiffeners and a belt buckle found at the fort (ALAVNA) at Maryport, Cumbria are dated to the mid - late 4th century AD (M.G. Jarret, Maryport, Cumbria: A Roman Fort and its Garrison. Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiqu. and Arch. Soc. Extra Series Vol. 22 (1976))
These belt stiffeners are rare finds in the UK. Another much smaller stiffener (ESS-5086D8) was found nearby. | 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: | 350
425 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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