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Roman buckle
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Katie Hinds, 2010-10-01 17:36:35
Title
Roman buckle
Description
English: A fragment of Roman copper alloy buckle frame, probably Hawkes & Dunning type IIA (1961, fig.17-18). It consists of part of one side of the frame with a zoomorphic protrusion to the side and a zoomorphic projection beyond the frame, from which extends a broken loop (which would have held the axis bar). The fragment measures 34.28x23.10x4.26mm and weighs 6.2g.

The frame is decorated with a single line of punched dots. The break is old (3.63x3.29mm), and the other end of the frame curves back on itself to give an involuted terminal. This is zoomorphic in form (perhaps serpent like with a rounded, pointed head) with a punched ring-and-dot for the eye and a short groove for the mouth. A broken 2.64mm diameter circular-sectioned bar (for the pin) extends just behind the head, c.3mm long.

The zoomorphic protrusion on the side of the frame extends at 90 degrees (the neck) with the triangular head extending parallel to the frame. It has a punched ring-and-dot for an eye and a slight indentation, possibly nostrils or a short mouth.

As the frame curves to its involuted terminal, a vertical extension (4.84x3.75mm) projects c.10mm, terminating in a broken loop. Just below this and at 90 degrees projects a circular-section (3.11mm diameter) snout decorated with oblique grooves (on one side only). The loop possibly represents horns, but would have connected to the buckle plate somehow.

Cf. HAMP-F6FC56, of similar style and decoration, and Appels and Laycock (2007, 204) ref. SL7.12. Appels and Laycock have argued that buckles with bird protrusions are commonly found in the area inhabited by the Iron Age Corieltauvi, while the 'dot style' decoration was characteristic of the Catuvellauni.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 325 and 410
Accession number
FindID: 408684
Old ref: WILT-60DF40
Filename: Fry0910romanbuckle.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/298893
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/298893
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/408684
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