06-17-2013, 11:34 AM
Quote:This would likely have been an officer belt, I think there is no problem for common soldiers to wear a cingulum with brass/bronze fittings.
It is not a common type. I choosed it because the hoard is 5th century (of course the belt fittings could be earlier) and the buckle shape is very similar to finds from Brittany and Cornwall. I portray a late/sub/post-Roman brittonic chieftain from late 5th century Brittany. And I hope to get more and more 'bling', thinking about how men such as Riothamus or Ambrosius Aurelianus could have looked like.
I came across an artickle by Michael Kazanski (2007), on p. 256 there are more of these buckles:
http://www.academia.edu/1930550/M._Kazan...p._173-197
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Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)