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BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Unique ID: YORYM-1DDB08
An incomplete cast copper alloy button and loop fastener, of Wild’s Classification type II ‘Ring-headed fasteners’. The loop survives intact. It is a circular loop, with a long and wide shank, which bends to join the head. There is a shallow incised groove down the reverse of the shank. The head is broken, and only a fragment survives. It would once have been a circle. At the junction where the shank meets the head are two parallel pronounced vertical ridges. The button element, the head, has broken off either side of these ridges. The breaks are worn.
Button and loop fasteners are of British Iron Age tradition, which continued into the Roman period. For more details on button and loop fasteners see Wild (1970) Button and loop fasteners in the Roman provinces, Britannia vol. I, p137-147. See parallels: Wild, p139, Fig.1. Wild dates his Class II to the mid-first century AD, circa 25-75 AD.
Class: Class II
Sub class: ‘Ring-headed fasteners’
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
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: Exactly AD 25
Date to: Circa AD 75
Dimensions and weight
Length: 34.2 mm
Width: 15.5 mm
Weight: 5.4 g
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [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: Ryedale
To be known as: Westow
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Character undetermined [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2010
Personal details
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Recorded by: Mrs Liz Andrews-Wilson
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Identified by: Mrs Liz Andrews-Wilson - [view all attributed records]
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Created:
Tuesday 30th March 2010
Updated: Tuesday 6th April 2010
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