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Unique ID: BERK-ED2E37
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A copper alloy Roman buckle dating from the late 4th to 5th century AD. The buckle is of Hawkes & Dunnings (1961) Type IIIa. The buckle is D-shaped in both plan and cross section, with a recessed pin bar that has a rounded swelling in the centre. The buckle frame terminates in opposing stylised animal heads at either end of the pin bar. The animal heads are in profile and depict an open mouth with eyes or forehead bump and an ear. There are two or three ring and dot motifs on each head. There is no other decoration on the buckle, the outer frame of which has a bevelled edge, the pin being shaped to reflect this and sit comfortably on the outer buckle frame. A similar example is recorded from Winchester (Bishop & Coulston 2006:219, fig.137.4) that has a large buckle plate attached; it is possible that this example may also have had a buckle plate looped around the pin bar either side of the swelling. Another example, without plate or pin, was found at Richborough in Kent (Hawkes & Dunning 1961:60). This is the only example seen in the normal literature with a swelling in the centre of the pin bar.
Class:
Zoomorphic
Sub class: Hawke and Dunning Type IIIa
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 350
Date to: Circa AD 430
Quantity: 1
Length: 45.44 mm
Width: 31.15 mm
Thickness: 3.27 mm
Weight: 20.1 g
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Other reference: 2011.510
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SU5175
Four figure Latitude: 51.471674
Four figure longitude: -1.267128
1:25K map: SU5175
1:10K map: SU57NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Bishop, M.C. and Coulston, J.C.N. | 1993 | Roman Military Equipment From the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome (1993) | United Kingdom | B.T. Batsford Ltd | |||
Hawkes, S.C. and Dunning, G.C. | 1961 | Soldiers and Settlers, fourth to fifth century: with a catalogue of animal-ornamented buckles and related belt-fittings, Medieval Archaeology 5 | London | The Society for Medieval Archaeology |