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Description: | A cast copper-alloy belt mount dating to the late second or early third century AD. The fitting is oval in shape and comprises an openwork plate of four adjoining trumpet motifs. The openwork plate is D-shaped in section. The outer motifs are semi-circular in shape and possess trumpet-shaped terminals. The terminals are decorated with a single incised line. Two further trumpet motifs extend from diagonally opposed trumpet terminals. On the underside of the openwork plate, positioned on the outer edges, there extend two circular-section lugs which terminate in flat, circular plates. The strap fitting measures 38mm in length, 22mm in width and a maximum of 3mm in thickness. The lugs measures 4mm in length and their end plates 6mm in diameter.A remarkably similar example, possibly cast from the same moulds, was found in the excavation of Barrack Block 7, Room 39 at Prysg Field, Caerleon (Chapman 2005, 126, no. Sr14) and the type is known more generally on sites along the Upper German-Raetian Limes (Oldenstein 1976, 272, nos. 908-10).The trumpet or 'trompetenmuster' motif is a common decorative feature of Roman metalwork dating to the second and third century AD. See Von Jenny, W.A. (1935) Keltische Metallarbeiten aus Heidnischer und Christlicher Zeit for a discussion of the motif.
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