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Description: | Cast copper-alloy toggle, 35 mm long and oval in section (11 x 8 mm). Each end is convex, with a groove around the circumference just inside the widest part as it begins to taper to a waist. Beyond the waists, each end then flares again to a centre which has a rectangular perforation now filled with iron corrosion. There are two further grooves around the circumference here, one at each end of the perforation (and apparently cut by it). The iron corrosion is probably from a separate iron loop. The surface has a nice brown/green patina, but much has been lost and in these patches there is a powdery pale green corrosion. This needs watching as it may spread. Toggles have received little study, but seem to have been used as dress fasteners (perhaps for a cloak) and perhaps also as links in horse-harness. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -100
43 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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