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Description: | Incomplete, cast copper alloy Late Iron Age or Early Roman toggle. This object takes the form of a solid cylindrical body, capped at either end with flat circular roves. The circular roves have a circumfral groove, giving them a double band appearance. The centre of the cylindrical body is enlarged and globular with a vertical circumfral groove. Extending from the top of the body, in line with the groove, is the stub of a loop. The object is uncleaned so it is impossible to see if there are wear facets either side of the loop where they would be expected from contact with a leather strap. The surface of the toggle survives with a mid green patina. Exposed surfaces are lighter green. Break edges at the loop are not fresh, but not well worn, suggesting damage occurred in the more recent past. The toggle is 28.56mm long, 13.14mm thick and 15.76mm high to the top of the loop stub. The roves are 13.18mm and 12.18mm in diameter. The toggle weighs 19.66g.A similar example is reported in Jackson, 1990, Camerton, The Late Iron Age and Early Roman Metalwork, page 40, number 87. Here Jackson explains that the loops could be circular, triangular, rectangular and tear-shaped. The loop stub on the example recorded here is formed from two straight divergent shanks of metal suggesting that the loop was triangular or tear-shaped. Such toggles were probably used as a form of button and loop fastener on straps
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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