Record ID: HAMP1515 - ROMAN belt

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BELT

Unique ID: HAMP1515

Object type certainty: Certain

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Cast copper-alloy belt plate. Open-work and enamelled decoration. Sub-rectangular, with rounded ends. Rounded knop in the centre of each rounded end, with trace of loop either side of each knop (all broken). Rectangular panel on either side, peltiform ends, neither of which is complete, on inside of each rounded end. Fungiform stud at either end of reverse surface. Inlaid enamel decoration as follows; black and yellow millefiore enamel within the rectangular panels, red enamel within the rounded ends with traces of black dots, turquoise within the peltiform ends and blue enamel within the rounded knops. Much of the red enamel is missing; and a section of comparable size from each of the rectangular panels is also missing. Reverse surfaces hollow. L: 83 W: 36 T: 3 Similar examples are known from across the Empire from Britain, along the Rhine and Danube to Syria (Dura). Four plates from South Shields were chained together on a broad leather belt (Allason-Jones & Miket 1984, 94-6).

Class: plate

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 200
Date to: Circa AD 300

Dimensions and weight

Length: 83 mm
Width: 36 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Quantity: 1

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: South East And London
County: Hampshire
District: Basingstoke And Deane
To be known as: HAMPSHIRE KINGSCLERE

Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Other [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Recreational usage [scope notes]

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 1989

Personal details

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Recorded by: Ms Sally Worrell - [ view all attributed records]
Identified by: Ms Sally Worrell - [view all attributed records]

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