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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle frame of Roman date, perhaps of Hawkes and Dunning Type IA. One side of the frame and part of the outer edge survive, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The surviving side is crescent shaped in form, oval in section, terminating towards the frame end in old breaks. At the outer edge the frame expands to what appears to be a stylised animal motif, perhaps a dolphin or similar, with slight triangular projection at the outer edge and the remains of an openwork motif towards the centre. This is perhaps an animal with open mouth gripping a now missing ball. The entire fragment has a dark brown patina. It measures 24.97mm in surviving length, 18.90mm in surviving width, 3.12mm in thickness, and 4.48g in weight.This is an incomplete fragment from a buckle frame of probable Roman date. It finds perhaps its closest parallels in Late Roman military buckles of Hawkes and Dunning (1961) Type IA buckles with stylised dolphins at the outer edge that have open mouths and grip balls (e.g. Hawkes and Dunning, 1961: Fig. 13, m, o). However, this form is also seen in Type IIA and B buckles, the lack of bar/inner edge making it impossible to tell precisely which group the current example falls into. In either case, it is of probable Late Roman date, c.4th century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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