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Description: | A cast copper-alloy button and loop fastener, probably dating to the late Iron Age, c. 100 BC - AD 50. The fastener has an exaggerated upper decorative globular knop, which has incised decoration across the outer surface in the shape of a circled triclone. Connected to the base of this large knop is the circular fastener loop, with symmetrically-positioned bifurcated knops at each side, with a plain circular-sectioned ring shaft in between. The fastener is an overall medium-green colour with deeper grooved or recessed areas possessing a darker green patina. It measures 24.68 mm long, 16.47 mm wide (at bifurcated knops), 6.94 mm thick (at ring), 11.2 mm diameter (at knop) and weighs 9.42 grams.A parallel for this object has been recorded on the PAS database as record: SUR-E19B71 and is dated to the late Iron Age.This belongs to a widely varying group of objects which are thought to have been closures for clothing. The fastener is also similar in decoration to a miniature terret ring found in Sussex and recorded onto the PAS database as: SUSS-B37F23.
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