2010-03-30 12:17:05 Liz Andrews-Wilson law 2010-04-06 12:54:00 Liz Andrews-Wilson law YORYM-1DDB08 BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER 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.   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... Copper alloy Cast IRON AGE IRON AGE Late ROMAN Early 25 75 15.5 34.2 Good Incomplete 2010-03-30 12:17:05 NORTH YORKSHIRE RYEDALE POINT( ) From Map SE76NE SE4746 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 YORYM Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2010 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable.