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Description: | Fragment of a late Roman cast copper alloy buckle of Hawkes and Dunning Type IA, IIA or IIB. The fragment consists of the outer edge of the D shaped buckle, the rest is lost to old breaks. The front of the outer edge is moulded into two dolphins heads facing each other with open jaws holding a pellet between them. The back is plain and flat. The dolphins both have prominent brow ridges, ridges flanking the eyes and rolled out tips to the inner and outer jaws.There also appears to be a groove running around the bodies, starting just before the break on each side. The pellet is small and a raised pellet in the recessed area between the jaws. It is 28.3mm long, 9.8mm wide and 3.8mm thick; it weighs 4.95 grams. It is not clear if they originally has a crest and the general form with eye and brow ridges is quite unusual. The different Hawkes and Dunning types are defined on the plate and strap bar form which cannot be reconstructed on this buckle.
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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