05-17-2013, 09:18 AM
For next year I plan to have a reproduction made of the gilded silver belt set found in the hoard of Roman silver from Traprain Law hillfort. The hoard as a terminus post quem in the early 5th century AD.
It is on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
http://www.nms.ac.uk/collections/image.p...&scalemode=
The set is made of one buckle and attached (?) stiffeners, 4 other stiffeners, one strap end (the middle one).
It bears similarities with finds from Roman Pannonia. I find also that buckle shape looks very similar to Quoit Brooch style buckles found in Brittany at Pont-de-Buis and Saint-Marcel. The buckle has remains of leather on its back.
On Fectio's website:
It is nearly all I got however. The report on the hoard find by Curle is old, it dates from 1923 and nearly impossible to get.
I would need detailed pictures and information of dimensions. Can anyone help?
It is especially hard to figure if the stifferners are part of one block or were separate.
It is on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
http://www.nms.ac.uk/collections/image.p...&scalemode=
The set is made of one buckle and attached (?) stiffeners, 4 other stiffeners, one strap end (the middle one).
It bears similarities with finds from Roman Pannonia. I find also that buckle shape looks very similar to Quoit Brooch style buckles found in Brittany at Pont-de-Buis and Saint-Marcel. The buckle has remains of leather on its back.
On Fectio's website:
It is nearly all I got however. The report on the hoard find by Curle is old, it dates from 1923 and nearly impossible to get.
I would need detailed pictures and information of dimensions. Can anyone help?
It is especially hard to figure if the stifferners are part of one block or were separate.
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert