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Belt Strap Ends - not Apron terminals!
I had previously listed these items as small pendants hung at the end of the straps found below the Legionnaries armour.  
This is not correct!

They are actually pendants for the ends of military belts from the mid-2nd to the mid-3rd century AD.
These belts, which used a variety of different buckle styles, split into two towards their end.  
Each of the two parts ended in one such hanger, thus each belt set used two.

References:

Two examples on left with small tip at bottom:
Militaria Sisciensia, # 318, 322 + 330.
Redzic, Viminacium, # 814 + 817, type XXVIv1.

Example second from right with plain bottom:
Militaria Sisciensia, # 320, 321, 323, 324, 327, 328, 333, 336 + 339.
Redzic, Viminacium, # 815, 820, 830, 835, type XXVIv1.
Caerleon Canabae, fig. 92, # 167.

The large example, with a concave back, is similar to a 1st century example from the Rhein at Mainz in Roman Military Equipment, 1st edition, figure 99, #1 but is quite large and may instead be a brass drawer handle from post-medieval furniture.  However, one was also found in a Roman context at Rusovce near Bratislava, Kostromichev, Kherson necropolis, page 116, fig. 8, # 12.

Belt Strap Ends - not Apron terminals!

I had previously listed these items as small pendants hung at the end of the straps found below the Legionnaries armour.
This is not correct!

They are actually pendants for the ends of military belts from the mid-2nd to the mid-3rd century AD.
These belts, which used a variety of different buckle styles, split into two towards their end.
Each of the two parts ended in one such hanger, thus each belt set used two.

References:

Two examples on left with small tip at bottom:
Militaria Sisciensia, # 318, 322 + 330.
Redzic, Viminacium, # 814 + 817, type XXVIv1.

Example second from right with plain bottom:
Militaria Sisciensia, # 320, 321, 323, 324, 327, 328, 333, 336 + 339.
Redzic, Viminacium, # 815, 820, 830, 835, type XXVIv1.
Caerleon Canabae, fig. 92, # 167.

The large example, with a concave back, is similar to a 1st century example from the Rhein at Mainz in Roman Military Equipment, 1st edition, figure 99, #1 but is quite large and may instead be a brass drawer handle from post-medieval furniture. However, one was also found in a Roman context at Rusovce near Bratislava, Kostromichev, Kherson necropolis, page 116, fig. 8, # 12.

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