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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy late Roman buckle frame of Hawkes and Dunning type IIA (1961, fig.17-18), missing its iron axis bar and pin. Only half of the buckle now remains, which originally would have been symmetrical. The frame consists of two confronted dolphins (one missing) with open jaws holding between them a single oval object. Their bodies curve outwards and downwards before curling inwards again. Their tail ends are in the form of smaller dolphin heads, again shown with mouth open. At the bottomost part of the frame, where the tail forms the smaller head, a D-shaped lugs extend downwards. This lug has a single central piercing. The buckle is plano-convex in cross-section. The open jaws are further defined by crude grooves, the eyes by a punched concentric circle. The crests of the dolphins do not stand very high and are thinner compared to the head. The smaller head is decorated in a similar manner. Stuart Laycock comments: This buckle is quite unusual for Britain, because with the long low lozenge shaped-loop and terminals that don't turn up, it's basically a non-British type, either manufactured on the continent or copied very closely over here. They are uncommon in Britain. The buckle dates from 330 to the end of the Roman period.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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