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Tracing Troops: An Upper German Belt-Fitting from Roman Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2016

Fraser Hunter
Fraser Hunter*
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National Museums Scotland [email protected]
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Abstract

A silver belt-fitting from Cramond in the shape of a ring-pommel sword is linked to a class of beneficiarius equipment typical of Germania Superior. It is argued that this represents troop movements connected with the Severan campaigns.

Keywords

CramondRoman military equipmentmilitary belt-fittingring-pommel swordsilverGermania Superiorbeneficiarius
Type
Shorter Contributions
Information
Britannia , Volume 47 , November 2016 , pp. 266 - 271
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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