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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy late Iron Age or Roman copper-alloy button and fastener which appears to fall outside Wild's (1970) classification. Button and loop fasteners are believed to have been used to hold together two pieces of fabric, or leather. The loop/shank was sown to the fabric base and the head was probably inserted through a slit or loop in another section of fabric. The number of button and loop fasteners found on military sites implies that they were items of military equipment (Wild 1970, 145-146).
This example has a flat but very slightly rounded heart-shaped head, which may represent a leaf, with a rounded knob at its terminal. The head measures 31.56mm in height and 22.80mm in width. There is a central small rectangular projection from between the two halves of the wider end of the heart shape which bends backwards towards the shank but does not touch it. The back of the head is rough and has casting seams visible. The shank projects from the centre of the back of the head at a 45 degree angle and is rectangular in cross-section. It has a triangular loop at the end of the shank. The whole button and loop fastener measures 49.13mm in total length and the shank and loop are 28.30mm in length. | 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: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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