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Description: | A copper alloy late Iron Age to Roman button and loop fastener (probably), seemingly a variant of Wild Class IX which have a bar rather than a button. This example has a baluster shaped bar and descending from it, a shield shaped (pointed base) openwork plate.The plate has a central vertical rib between the bar and the apex. A spiral springing from this rib near the bar, forms a coil on each side. Curved struts join this spiral to the apex, and join the central knop of the bar to the outer knops.The baluster shaped bar has a disc like central boss, and a globular, almost half round, knop at each end. All three are decorated with a circumferential band of beading bordered by incised lines. Extending from the back of the central knop is the oval attachment loop. This is in the same plane as the openwork plate, but set back from it by a right angle bend in the shank.The fitting has a dark green, slightly patchy patina. It is 65.9mm long, 37.7mm wide and 17.4mm thick. 37.35g.No close parallel has been identified on the PAS database, but the style is clearly related to Wild Class IX button and loop fasteners such as SUSS-D17D34 and other stap fitting of similar date such as the sword belt fitting LANCUM-30FA31 and strap fitting DUR-32FCF7. Wild (1970, Button-and-loop fasteners in the Roman Provinces, published in Britannia Volume 1) also mentions some atypical fasteners, some of which have openwork elements.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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