DORSET-FOUND CELTIC AND ROMAN BRONZE OBJECTS. 



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 Object. 



Locality, &c. 



How procured. 



formed as to produce the effect of a double 

 foliation. The straight sides are widened 

 inwards and outwards, so as to be fin. 

 broad. The bronze where exposed has a 

 fine patina. But it is much adorned. The 

 front curved face of each end has seven 

 squares of red enamel, separated by six 

 squares of very dark blue, almost black, 

 enamel. In the middle of each of these 

 latter squares is a minute flower, partly 

 red. The two middle projections at the 

 ends seem to have had roundels of enamel, 

 apparently red. Lastly, the face of the 

 straight oblong side is covered with 

 irregular interlaced gold lines, the inters- 

 tices being brown enamel. There is no 

 ornament at the back of the buckle, but 

 the oblong side pieces have long hollows 

 as if intended for enamel. 



It is difficult to understand the mode of 

 using this buckle. At the back there is a 

 stud at one end, the button of it fin. 

 across. At the other end there is a rivet, 

 which looks as if it had originally been a 

 similar stud. If this were all, one would 

 have supposed that one stud was buttoned 

 into one end of a leather belt, the other 

 stud into the other end ; and that through 

 the eyelets were fastened laces for more 

 security. But this seems disproved by 

 what look like the catch of a pin at one end, 

 and the remains of the attachment of a pin 

 at the other end. If we accept this it is 



