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Description: | A cast copper alloy teardrop-headed button and loop fastener of Wild's hybrid Class II/III dating to the late Iron Age to Roman. The fastener consists of a teardrop shaped head and a triangular shank. The teardrop-shaped head is unlike most class III fasteners as it is perforated, hence the hybrid of Wild's Class II/III. The surface of the head is marginally convex with a flat base. The perforation is heart-shaped with lines radiating from the corners of the perforation indenting the head of the fastener and dividing it into three cells. Like normal Class III fasteners the join of the shank to head is set back from the edge of the head closer to the centre. In this case, the shank joins the head flush with the edge of the central heart-shaped perforation. The loop has a triangular perforation, having rounded sides with a flat obverse and reverse. The surface is smooth and has a mid greyish-green. Wild suggests this type of fastener dates to the Flavian period 69-96 AD (See: Wild (1970), 138).
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