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Description: | A Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper-alloy teardrop button-and-loop fastener. The head consists of a central boss surrounded by a raised cordon which is drawn out to point on one end and rounded on the other. The rear of this is hollow cast. The head is otherwise undecorated. The shank is attached to the rear of the rounded end of the head extending outwards at a right-angle and then curving away, to form the loop. The loop proper has actually broken off, with the break occuring at the fork of the start of the loop. Fasteners of this type are classified type III by Wild and have been dated to between the late first and second century AD. The metal is a greyish-green colour and slightly pitted.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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