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Description: | Button-and-loop fastener made from copper alloy, with enamelled decoration. The head measures 27 x 20 mm, and is made up of four circles, each originally measuring c. 10-11 mm in diameter. The central two are close together and the outer two are set one to either side of the central pair, in the angles between them. The centres of the circles are sunken, and one of the outer and one of the inner circles retain some fragments of brownish red enamel. The outer enamelled circle is incomplete, and the break is old and worn. The shank is oval in cross-section; it emerges from the reverse of one of the inner circles, tapers and turns through a right angle before coming to a very fresh break. This button-and-loop fastener does not fit in to Wild's classification, although he does catalogue one with 5 conjoined circles (no. 159) from Newstead in Northumberland. Button-and-loop fasteners date from the late Iron Age to the second century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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