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Description: | A Roman buckle pin (1st century): The pin forms a sub-cruciform, with the upper arm terminating in an integral loop, and which would have been attached to the strap bar of the buckle. On the outer face of the buckle, below the loop the pin is decorated with a low-relief 'X'. This pin gradually tapers to a slender moulded lower terminal which would have rested on the buckle frame, and it depicts the head of a bird. In profile the lower portion of the pin is tilted downwards further emphasising the beak. On either side of the birds head there is a high-relief annulet representing the eyes. At the midpoint of the pin, and integral to the sides there protrudes a head and neck of a bird, one on each side. The reverse of the pin is undecorated. The pin has an incomplete well developed mid brown patina. It measures 33.35mm long, 22.46mm wide and 7.9mm thick at the loop. It weighs 5.1g. The condition of the pin is fair.Similar pins were found at Camerton (Jackson:1990) where it is commented that these type of buckle pins date to the 1st century and are common on military belt-buckles.Jackson, R. 1990 Camerton: The Late Iron Age and Early Roman Metalwork British Museum Press, No. 48 and 49
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