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Description: | A cast copper-alloy belt mount dating to the late second or early third century AD. The fitting is approximately lentoidal in shape and comprises an openwork design of two adjoining trumpet motifs. The openwork plate is D-shaped in section. On the underside of the openwork plate, positioned at each end where the motifs terminate in trumpet-like terminals, there extend two circula-section lugs, the terminals of which appears to have been hammered flat. The strap fitting measures 41mm in length, 18mm in width and a maximum of 4mm in thickness. The lugs measures 4mm in length and is 3mm in width. It weighs 9.09g.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.
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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