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Description: | A possibly incomplete late Iron Age cast copper-alloy toggle (c. 300 BC - AD 100), possibly missing enamel or perhaps coral (or similar) settings.The toggle is symmetrical in form with a central ovoid body (slightly curving in profile) and a flat circular terminal (c.4mm thick) at each end. Each terminal is 17.2mm in diameter with a concentric groove running around the centre of the outside.The body is formed of two solid hemispheres joined at their sides nearest to each other with a loop 17.10mm long (internal 5.7x5.2mm). The hemispheres are set apart at an angle between which is a solid smooth area with a pair of projecting collets at the widest point. These are set close together and beyond the point of contact a rim extends for c. two thirds of the edge, thickening towards the centre of each rim. They are both decorated with tiny moulded circular knops, smaller at either end of the rim and becoming larger at the centre. The collets are c.10mm in diameter and hollow, possibly for a setting. They narrow to c.7mm in diameter over a depth of c.5mm.Behind each collet in the solid smooth area is a resulting triangular area. Both of these are decorated with a single moulded ring-and-dot, 3.5mm in diameter.View from either end, the loop is rather offset from the line of the collets.Large parts of the surface of the object are covered in a bright green corrosion product but where the original patina does survive, it is smooth and shiny and grey/blue-brown in colour.The toggle measures 30.23mm in length, 22.23mm in max.width (inclusive of loop), 19.39mm in depth (across the collets) and weighs 34.62g.A similar toggle recorded on this database is SF-691365, for which a late Iron Age date is suggested (c. 300 BC - AD 100).
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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