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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy belt mount or belt plate dating from the third century AD. The belt mount comprises a rectangular plate with an openwork rectangle at its centre, where a separate bar of enamelled cells could originally have sat. This bar is missing. Only one end of the mount survives and it also appears to be damaged.The upper surface of the plate is decorated with a rectangular frame cell for enamel created from ridges in relief. No enamel remains in this cell which forms a border round the open rectangular aperture in the centre of the plate. At the surviving end of the plate, the metal is thin and the edge tattered, perhaps suggesting that there was once a projecting decorative terminal, now missing. The other end of the plate is broken and missing. On the underside of the mount, there extends a single circular-section lug, the end of which has been flattened by hammering to make it disc headed or fungiform. The belt mount measures 16.3mm long, 19.7mm wide and 6.7mm thick across the rivet. The rivet is 3.1mm in diameter with a head of 5.5mm diameter and 1.1mm thickness. 1.98g. The metal has a light green to turquoise patina.Compare NCL-3E1976 and, not quite so similar, NCL-132C32. A more ornate example is SWYOR-671AE2. Ornate examples are also published in Allason-Jones & Miket (1984, 94-6).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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