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Description: | Romano British dumbbell fastener or button. The fastener comprises a heavy, solid round bar with bulbous ends adjacent to a central decorated section. This section is narrower than the ends and has a central rib decorated with incised horizontal lines around the dumbbell; this is flanked by two grooves which are in turn flanked by another rib. The fastener has an integrally cast attachment loop through which it may have been sewn onto a garment. The loop is on the back of the object and the decoration stops behind the loop ? there is a flat undecorated patch. The dumbbell weighs 9.14g and measures 19mm in length and 11mm in width. It has been suggested that these fasteners were in use from the late 1st century possibly into the third century and a number of similar examples can be seen in ?Early Celtic Art in North Britain: Vol.I? by M. Macgregor, 1976; page.136, figs.13, 14 & 16. | 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: | 50
250 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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