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Description: | A Roman copper alloy toggle. The toggle is in the form of two conjoined circles. Each circle is split into three rows of three cells by raised lines of copper alloy. This gives a chequerboard pattern. The cells are filled with enamel, alternating red and yellow. The reverse is undecorated. There is no sign of attachments on either side. The form appears similar to so some double bossed button and lopp fasteners, but as there is no sign of attachment it has not been possible to identify the object type.the object is 28mm long, 14mm wide, 5mm thick and weighs 6.92 grams.Richard Henry comments in the record of WAW-631944 that chequerboard enamelling can be seen on other Iron Age objects such as harness equipment, for example two linch pins recorded on the PAS database as WMID-947693 and YORYM-B3FDA2. The use of polychrome enamels on geometric chequerboard native style metalwork, as on the linch pins from Hatherton, Staffs. and Hotham, E. Yorks. is a widespread trend in Britain dating from c. AD 40-80 (Davis & Gwilt 2008, 162-171). However chequerboard enamel is also used Roman brooches in the 2nd century AD so it is a tradition which continues, for example see the Wirral brooches recorded on the database.
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