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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy Late Iron Age or Early Roman toggle. The object takes the form of a cylindrical body, capped at either end by circular roves. The main body of the toggle is decorated with a central groove that runs around the central circumference of the body. This in effect 'pinches' the toggle in, making it a figure of 8 in plan. At each end of the body is a slightly wasted neck, to which the plain roves are integrally attached. The toggle has a rectangular loop, which spans the main body, between the 'necks'. Between the loop, in the body of the toggle, is a sub circular depression. The object is abraded but much of the original surface survives with a very dark green patina. Exposed surfaces are lighter, brighter green or pale orangey brown. The toggle is 25.82mm long, 10.8mm wide, 9.94mm at the grooved middle and weighs 10.66g. A similar toggle has been reported from Essex as record ESSAB8F03. A published example can be seen in Stead, 1991, Iron Age cemeteries in East Yorkshire, page 57, figure 46, number 2
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