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Description: | A Late Iron Age to Early Roman (300 BC - 200 AD) copper alloy button-and-loop fastener (toggle) probably of Wild's Class I with double annular-loop head and offset attachment loop, all cast as one. The underside of the attachment loop is tear-drop shaped (19.45x16.20mm, internal 7.70x9.30mm) with a decorative groove on the inside surface below the point.Each annular loop measures c.15mm in diameter (internal 6.5mm), with a groove delineating them where they join.The patina is an olive green in colour an smooth, with a pitted area of probable corrosion on the upper edge of the annular loops.The button-and-loop fastener belongs probably to Wild's (1970) Class I, with a double head. However Wild's examples have solid heads, and the ring heads on this example are perhaps more akin to Wild's class II, with a single ring head. Class I fasteners are encountered in Britain from the late Iron Age and into the Early Roman period while Class II fasteners are thought to be a British Iron Age tradition surviving into the second century AD.Dimensions: length: 26.54mm; width: 28.79mm; thickness of the annular loops: 4.29mm; thickness of the attachment loop: 4.57mm; depth: 13.38mm; weight: 11.36g.Reference: Wild, J. P. (1970) Button-and-Loop Fasteners in the Roman Provinces Britannia I pp. 137-155
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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