11-24-2009, 09:30 PM
Jurjen
In not wishing to upset your how--to I just have to say that if Carol van Driel-Murry in reference to the Vindolanda Chamfron can call these items bellcaps as also in discussion by J.-M. A. W. Morel & A. V. A. J. Bosman in "An Early Roman Burial in Velsen" then that is what they are.
This she clearly states in the "Proceedings of the Fifth Roman Military Equipment Conference BAR 476 1989" and if there are those who might be doubtful that bellcaps were used on the only buckle of it's type ever to be found in Britain that I put in the British Museum then they will simply have to take my word for it as unfortunately I do not have a picture of the reverse of it.
In not wishing to upset your how--to I just have to say that if Carol van Driel-Murry in reference to the Vindolanda Chamfron can call these items bellcaps as also in discussion by J.-M. A. W. Morel & A. V. A. J. Bosman in "An Early Roman Burial in Velsen" then that is what they are.
This she clearly states in the "Proceedings of the Fifth Roman Military Equipment Conference BAR 476 1989" and if there are those who might be doubtful that bellcaps were used on the only buckle of it's type ever to be found in Britain that I put in the British Museum then they will simply have to take my word for it as unfortunately I do not have a picture of the reverse of it.
Brian Stobbs
