Record ID: SUR-FAF75C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle plate of later Roman date (Hawkes and Dunning (1961) type IIB), dating to, c. AD 250 - 400. The plate is rectangular with three rectangular perforations and a rivet hole at each corner. The sides and rear edge have decorative cusped borders. There is a ridge across the front end behind a pierced pin articulation and small bar which retains a copper alloy pin. The integrally cast frame has broken away and been lost.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-BDA4B3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle plate with integral pin of probable Roman date due to the presence of stamped decoration and a cast plate, of Hawkes and Dunning Type IIIB. The plate has the remains of the integral buckle frame projecting at one side of the plate, It has a repeating stamped decoration of two rows of circular dots and a line. There is a circular hole below the pin for a rivet (now missing). Length: 21.50mm (not including pin) Width: 23.77mm Thickness: 1.73mm Weight: 3.72g
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nedging-with-Naughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-448387
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy buckle, dating to c.AD 300 - 410. Half of the buckle frame remains. Hawkes and Dunning Type IIA. The remaining fragment is C shaped in plan and semi-circular in section, it is formed of a dolphin with a gaping jaw. A large ring and dot motif forms the eve and a large fin covers the dolphins back. At the base of tail is an incomplete circular loop which would have held the now missing spindle.  Length: 24.7 mm Width: 13.8 mm Thickness: 5.8 mm Weight: 3.29 g These buckles are associated with the Late Roman military, and are possibly from the equ…
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: LEIC-02B745
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper-alloy buckle, dating to c.AD 50 - 100. Hoss type A.1.b. The buckle is D-shaped in plan and rectangular in section. The buckle frame is minimally decorated with a moulded ridge either side of the pin rest and where the frame expands, the frame is narrowed at the pin rest. The spindle is separetly attached, it is cylindrical in section and both ends terminate in globular knops. The buckle is cast around the spindle, it is rectagular in plan and section it is decorated in the middle with horizontal lines the pin is curved slightly and terminates in a zoomorph…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-99B7D7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy coffee bean or "vulvate" mount of Roman date, c.AD 150 - 300. The mount comprises an ovate plate, the edges of which are broken and worn, with a raised, central oval boss, decorated with a deep median groove. The reverse of the mount is concave behind the boss. Two incomplete circular-sectioned lugs are present to either end of the reverse of the plate. The metal has a mid-green delaminated patina and is worn. The object is 21.76mm long, 17.79mm wide, 9.47mm thick and weighs 6.39g. Similar examples have been recorded on the PAS dat…
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-706EF6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast single looped D-shaped buckle with a pointed lip and a narrowed and offset strap bar; a drawn wire pin is looped round the strap bar. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1450 Length: 17.6mm, Height: 16.2mm, Thickness: 2.8mm, Weight: 1.95gms
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5ED5C0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible buckle pin. A slightly tapered D-section pin springing from a trapezoid block with spurs or stubs of a continuation at its outer corners and the stub of a forward-pointing projection between the spurs. Rust staining here and on the back may suggest the proximity of an iron object or the decay of an iron rivet; there is a [now] blind hole on the rusted back. Suggested date: possibly Roman, 43-410 Length: 25.9mm, Width: 11.3mm, Thickness: 3.7mm, Weight: 2.61gms
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-A28CCD
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy mount dating to the Roman period, c. AD 43-250. The mount is pelta shaped with a central strand flanked either side by curving rounded lobes. The extent of the remaining mount cannot be confidently determined as the edges are fairly worn. Projecting from one side of the mount is an integrally cast stud. The central strand features a concave groove down its centre. At one end is the stud, the other terminating with a triangular point. The other side of the mount is slightly convex with shallow grooves running around the lobes and towards the tr…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-A0F7C7
Object type: STUD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy stud, possibly dating to the Roman period, c.AD 43 - AD 410. The head of the stud is circular and domed (convex) with worn edges. A circular sectioned shaft protrudes off-centre from the underside, and terminates in a slightly expanded flat base. Opposite this shaft on the underside is a short projection which tapers to a point. This may be the incomplete remains of a second shaft. The metal has a green uneven patina. The stud is 12.04mm long, 10.64mm in diameter and weighs 2.26g. Appels et al. (2007, …
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-34F6DD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy buckle plate, possibly of late Roman date and cf. Hawkes and Dunning (1961) type IIB, dating to, c. AD 250 - 400. The openwork integral plate is rectangular and flat with an openwork design comprising parallel rectangular holes, with two incomplete circular holes to the front on the break at the edge, and a a trefoil arrangement of three circular holes at the rear, behind which is a projecting waisted semi-circular terminal. There are no rivets or attachments and no evident decoration.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: OXON-157123
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Probable Roman (mid 1st to 3rd century) mount: the copper alloy mount is incomplete or fragmentary. The body of the mount is an oval shape with a truncated and broken terminal, and at the opposite edge there is a integral sub-rectangular plate. The plate is decorated with fine transverse grooves which have been interupted by a circular perforation or cell. On the reverse thiscircular perforation or cell has a stud protruding. Due to corrosion it is not clear whether the stud is integral or seperate to the mount. The stud has a wide circular shank and terminals with an integral fla…
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-BABBA9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle fragment. Moulded outer edge only of a large oval buckle. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1400 Length: 12.2mm, Height: 40.4mm, Thickness: 5.4mm, Weight: 8.06gms
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-7A0656
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible buckle pin. Cast tapered pin or rounded section [tip lost] springing from an integrally cast plate with a central square base to the pin flanked by oval lobes, one mostly lost. The more complete lobe and the square panel bear a single ring and dot apiece, of diameter 4.4mm. Filing marks appear on the lobe. Abraded, pin bent. Possibly from a military belt or strap; ring and dot appears usually in later Roman contexts. Suggested date: Late Roman, 200-410 Length: 23.7mm, Height: 18.7mm, Thickness: 2.8mm, Weight: 2.50gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pilham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-D5B612
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fragment probably from a Roman dolphin type military buckle frame. Only the head of one of the beast survives. The head is D-shpaed in cross section (flat back, slightly domed reverse) and shaped in the form of an animal's head with an open mount snout and plume above the head. The eye is detailed by a small incised dot, while the plum has a series of diagonal incised lines running across it. The fragment is a medium green colour. The fragment is 18.7mm long, 13.1mm wide 3.2mm thick and weighs 2.45 grams The fragment is very similar to the beasts, typica…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanton St. John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-D1FA1D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman to early medieval openwork buckle plate dating to the early to mid 4th century AD. The frame is rectangular in shape, and formed of four bars. These bars have triangular projections, the perforations in between have a circular section, and a long rectangular section either side of the projections. Either end of each bar there is an impressed ring and dot design. At the outer edge of the buckle plate there is a central semi circular projection, flanked by a triangular projection. Inside each projection there is an impressed ring and dot design. Beside the projectio…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-7249BD
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over a quarter of an elaborate harness fitting or similar, pierced through the centreline for a vertical bar (now missing) of iron, the rusty remnants partially obscure the top perforation. This end is depicted as a three-faced anthropomorphic three-dimensional head, each cojoined face shares an eye with the adjacent head so there are three eyes in total. Below this there is semi-circular bar in the form of a stylised dolphin, apparently biting the side of the faces, one remains extant, the opposing bar is broken but the stub remains with a trace of the other dolphin’s mouth…
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-CAB192
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy harness pendant of Roman date, c. AD 200 - 300. The pendant comprises a triangular plate with an incomplete integral suspension loop projecting from the centre of the top of the triangle. Below the loop are two narrow incised grooves which appear to make the triangular plate resemble a heart-shape. The pointed terminal of the triangle is elongated and trefoil in plan with a bulbous knop at each tip. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The metal has a dark brown patina and is worn. The pendant is 42.61mm long, 19.53mm wide, 4.33mm thick and weighs 7.42g. These…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cawton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-344778
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and bent copper alloy buckle plate of late Roman date, possibly associated with a buckle of Hawkes and Dunnings Type I A or B and dating to the period c. AD 350 - 425. The front of the plate has punched decoration comprising a row of annulets along the midline and an exterior border of small dumbell shapes. The plate appears to have broken across the middle, where there is a transverse band of annulets and dumbell shapes with the mid-line row of annulets continuing into the break. Perhaps half of the original length of the plate is now remaining. …
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2023
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Record ID: NLM-25FAD5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible buckle fragment, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast corner from a buckle or strap fitting with two adjacent straight sides. A pair of double ring and dot of diameter 3.9mm are nested outside the angle at the corner and the object is broken across the site of a third. The ring and dot are cut by an incised outer linear border, with its vertical continuation in turn cutting across the horizontal border. Eight nicks along the outer horizontal edge are continued as a series up the vertical side to confer further texture. The initial impression was of a regular i…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wyham cum Cadeby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-241F48
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Roman copper alloy strapend, dating to c. AD 350-400. Probably part of an amphora-shaped strapend of continental manufacture. The find has a sub-triangular flared open end with central rivetted terminal. Around the rivet hole is a ring and dot motif, consisting of two incised circles, the fields of which are both decorated with asymmetrical transverse lines, those in the larger field are in a sub-spiral shape. There are flanking peltate or 'kidney-shaped' handles, but only part of one of these on the left hand side remains due to an old break. …
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Friday 3rd November 2023
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