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Description: | A very small incomplete copper alloy late Roman propeller-shaped belt stiffener. The stiffener is flat, 17.2mm in length and 12mm wide with a fan-shaped end and a sub-circular centre plate. It is 0.6 mm thick. It is undecorated. The surviving end has a single sub-circular perforation for attachment of the mount to leather. The reverse is flat and plain.
Propeller-shaped stiffeners are associated with late Roman military belt sets. A stiffener 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 larger stiffener (ESS-1E6A76) 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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