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Description: | A cast copper alloy button-loop fastener of Wild Type III. The fastener is comprised of a drop shaped disc head which is decorated with a high-relief circular boss within a low-relief ring. Protruding and integral to the reverse of the head, which is flat, there is a triangular loop. The shank of the loop is bent at a 90 degree angle, which is offset from the head, but runs parallel to it. The loop is oval in section. The fastener is 35.54mm long and is 15.5mm thick, the head is 18mm wide. It weighs 11.6 grams. Button and loop fasteners are of British Iron Age tradition, which continued into the Roman period. This fastener is a Wild (Wild, J.P. 1970 'Button and loop fasteners in the Roman provinces', Britannia Vol. I, p137-147) Class III which dates to c. 100 to c. 200 AD.
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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