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Description: | A cast copper-alloy belt mount of Roman date. The mount consists of a cental circular element (diameter 13.4mm) flanked on either side by triangles which flare out from the circle; the circular element truncates the corners of the triangles. The illustration (see notes, below) seems to show chamfered edges on the front face of the artefact, excepting its four corners: these therefore take on the appearance of knops. In the internal angles of the triangular elements are four circular rivet holes; these have all lost their rivets. The reverse has not been depicted but was presumably flat. A similar object, albeit a larger one, can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 2, 4; ref. 18). This is described by Read as a 'belt-stiffener', and, unlike this artefact, is decorated with punched ring-and-dot motifs. | 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
450 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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