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Description: | An incomplete Late Roman cast copper-alloy zoomorphic buckle - Hawkes & Dunning type IIA (1961, fig.17-18), missing its pin, its strap bar and almost half its frame. The surviving half of the frame consists of a dolphin with a man's humanoid head in its open mouth. The dolphin has a bevelled crest above its head sloping downwards into its back, a raised bar across its neck and an eye made from two circles cut into the buckle. The humanoid head has two eyes set in low relief, a flat nose and lines descending from the forehead to represent hair. The buckle would have been symmetrical, so there would have been a second dolphin on the other side of the head. A tiny fragment of the opposite dolphin survives to the right side of the head. The buckle is 33.5mm long, 18.8mm wide and 3.6mm thick. It weighs 5.9g.An example of a complete buckle similar to this fragment is LANCUM-D0A193, though it does not have an openwork design. A fragmentary example is BUC-A3A6C5.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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