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Description: | A late Iron Age to Roman button and loop fastener. The fastener is circular in shape and convex, with four triangular cells for enamel arranged in a circle in the centre. There is a groove at the base of the convex bulb which creates a raised margin around the fastener. Tiny traces of red enamel remain in the central cells. The reverse is concaved and has an integral, triangular shaped loop protruding from the back. Unlike many examples of button and loop fasteners this loop is not at a right angle to the face of the button, but instead protrudes directly back from the button. The fastener measures 20 mm in diameter and the button component is 5.4 mm thick. The loop is 3.5 mm thick, and the fastener is 13.6 mm thick when button and loop are measured together. Such artefacts are accepted as being dress fasteners, with the leg sewn into a garment and the head passed through a loop (Hattatt 1989, 414). Button and loop fasteners were mainly in use during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and Hattatt suggests that they were mainly in use by the native, Celtic population (Hattatt 1989, 414). Hattatt also argues that enamelling was at its height of popularity in the 2nd century AD, and it seems likely therefore that this find falls within the Roman, rather than Iron Age period, although this cannot be said with certainty. | 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: | 200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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