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Description: | Button and loop fastener or strap terminal Cast copper alloy button and loop fastener or strap terminal.This fitting has a flat trefoil 'button', formed from three adjoining circles. The loop (cast in one piece with the 'button') projects backwards from the rear of the head, the shank starting from the centre of the trefoil. The shank emerges at 90° to the 'button', bending as it nears the loop, which is at an angle of around 30° to the 'button', in the same plane. The loop and shank are plain, but the front of the 'button' is decorated. Each of the circles which forms the trefoil has an inner raised circular band creating two fields in each circle which would have been filled with enamel. All three of the central circles have the remains of some enamel, which now appears black but this is due to corrosion and degradation.Parallels: This fastener does not fit into Wild's (1970) typology, nor is it closely paralleled in the related 1843 hoard.Measurements: Length: 33.6mm; width: 20.58mm; diameter: 14.5mm; weight: 10.0g
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