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Unique ID: BH-0F2BBE
Object type certainty: Certain
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A copper-alloy frame from a Late Roman zoomorphic buckle of Hawkes and Dunning type IA. The 'D-shaped' frame takes the form of two inward-facing serpent-like creatures, the open mouths of which flank a lozenge-shaped pin rest with incuse central pellet. The heavily stylised heads are slightly wider than the rest of the frame; each has a groove at the top and bottom and an incuse pellet eye. A line of pellets extends along the upper surface of the neck of each animal, with a line of cross-hatched grooves on the outer surface of the trapezoidal-sectioned frame.
Length: 21.6mm; width: 30.3mm; thickness: 3.5mm. Weight: 5.6g.
This buckle is part of a group of late 4th century military fittings commonly found in Britain (1961: 41 - 43).
Class:
Zoomorphic
Sub class: Hawkes and Dunning Type IA
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 350
Date to: Circa AD 450
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.6 mm
Width: 30.3 mm
Thickness: 3.5 mm
Weight: 5.6 g
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Other reference: Ver 14/15 - 6
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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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 |