A beautifully ornate belt buckle was found on a Roman legionary’s skeleton in a modest grave in Leicester, England..<\/p>\n
The tomb is located on the west bank of the River Sour, near Fosse Way – an important road in the old Roman city. The style of the belt suggests that the man to whom it belonged lived in the 4th or 5th century CE.<\/p>\n
The buckle is decorated with dolphin heads and dogs – typical late Roman motifs used in clerical symbolism. The belt buckle is extremely thin, and made of bronze.<\/p>\n
The owner of the belt had severe health problems as a child, but in adulthood, he enjoyed great health, apart from breaking his left forearm and weakening the wrist – injuries typical of a raised arm to resist a blow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36653,"template":"","class_list":["post-106977","odkrycia-rzymskie","type-odkrycia-rzymskie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/106977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/106977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}