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Button and Loop Fastener
Unique ID: NCL-70FEC6
Object type certainty: Certain
A cast copper-alloy button and loop fastener, hook piece, of the late Iron Age or early Roman period, probably related to horse harness.
The fastener is nearly complete, but bent. The 'base' end has the underside in an openwork triangle, with semicircular sides holding openwork decoration between them, unconnected to the underside. The decoration consists of two discs with circumscribed circles with traces of enamel and a crescent arcing toward the hook end of the fastener.
A thick arm extends from the underside of the base to the hook end, D-shaped in section.
The hook end has a thick, central projection perpendicular to the arm. At the top of the projection is some worn decoration and subsidiary arms emerging from the projection. Only one of these is complete, and forms an inturned S-shape.
The copper-alloy is slightly ferrous.
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: ROMAN [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Length: 44.34 mm
Width: 27.76 mm
Thickness: 10.85 mm
Weight: 34.9 g
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Secondary material: Enamel [scope notes| view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: Yorkshire And The Humber
County: North Yorkshire
District: Richmondshire
Parish: Ravensworth
Restricted 4 Figure grid reference: NZ1408
The map has been degraded and provides an approximate location with a degree of random obfuscation.
Grid reference source: From finder
Grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st February 2008
Personal details
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Recorded by: Dr Robert Collins
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Identified by: Dr Robert Collins - [view all attributed records]
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Created:
Thursday 17th April 2008
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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