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Description: | A possible Iron Age cast copper alloy toggle or fastener. Only the bar of the toggle remains, the loop is missing. The break is corroded, and due to the lack of patina it may be a recent break. The bar is moulded with two rounded terminals, both seated on a wide integral disc. The discs are joined by a narrowed integral circular section ?T? shape. The lower terminal of the ?T? is the broken edge which would originally form the loop. In plan the bar is a wide ?V? shape. The surface of the toggle is abraded, but there are traces of a mid green patina. Where the surface is abraded, it is a dark grey colour. The bar measures 27.36mm long, 11.79mm wide and 8.82mm thick. It weighs 8.9g.
Jackson (Jackson, R. 1990 Camerton: The Late Iron Age and Early Roman Metalwork British Museum Press) illustrates a similar shaped toggle, No. 87, which is dated to the late Iron Age. | 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
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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