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Description: | Incomplete Iron Age copper alloy button-and-loop fastener, rectangular flat-sectioned bar (length 22.5mm, width 10.5mm, 3mm thick), the face with a cross-hatched grid of engraved lines containing remains of red enamel. Circular-sectioned shank on reverse broken at the springing of the missing right-angled loop. It is likely that this fastener would have been used for securing bags, clothes or straps, possibly on a horse-harness. Wild (1970) Class VI. 1st century BC/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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