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Description: | A complete copper alloy button and loop fastener of Roman date. The head of the fastener is an open work circle that has sixteen small rectangular cells running around the top edge, each cell is filled with blue enamel. On the inside edge of the loop is a small roundel that is attached to one side, this has a recessed centre with geometric indentations at the base and may have originally contained enamel. Behind the roundel projects the shank of the loop, this bends round at a 90 degree angle away from the button element of the artefact, before expanding into a large triangular loop.Button and loop fasteners such as this are of Wild's type II and date to the mid-1st - 2nd century AD.Compare HESH-157F63 and SWYOR-7DD2B8 which is of the same shape but has a different design. The record notes that:"This example would probably fit best into Class V (b) of J.P. Wild's classification of button and loop fasteners in the Roman Provinces (1970). This class (Vb) consists of fasteners with flat enameled disc heads, however, Wild does not mention whether any of these examples have cast holes through the disc. Also Wild dates these fasteners to the second century AD (100-200 AD) but due to the age of the classification this date range may well have been refined or extended. Thus a larger date bracket of the later Iron Age to Early Roman period (50BC - 250 AD) has been suggested. Compare also YORYM-F8C545. The fastener also has similarities to Wild Class II, ring-headed fasteners.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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