Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WMID-905A14
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
A Post-Medieval cast copper alloy toggle (length: 25.3mm; width of ovoid tip/ terminal: 18.4mm; thickness of ovoid tip/ terminal: 6.9mm; weight: 5.20g). The double-loops (inner loop diameter: 3.7mm) seem to have been attached and soldered on to either side of the stem (length: 15.1mm; width: 4mm). The stem was also attached to the ovoid or 'rugby-shaped' tip/ terminal. The pestle is in a worn and poor condition with a dark purple/ brown patchy patina. At present, there is no reliable typological sequence for the development of this category of artefact.
Only a few pestles of this type have been found, one of which is from Walsoken, Cambridgeshire. The usual plain appearance of the pestle has in the past made identification difficult.
Notes:
These object have been previously recorded on the database, however opinion over their use and date is undecided. Suggestion include: Iron Age to Roman toggle fastener, post medieval to modern toggle fastener and Roman cosmetic pestle. This objects have been previously published and discussed by Ralph Jackson (1985, 165-192; 2010, 6) and Sally Worrell (2008, 347-351).
Class: toggle
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1600
Date to: AD 1850
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.3 mm
Width: 18.4 mm
Thickness: 6.9 mm
Weight: 5.2 g
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 30th November 2004
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4 Figure: SK0900
Four figure Latitude: 52.59772
Four figure longitude: -1.868561
1:25K map: SK0900
1:10K map: SK00SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Jackson, R. | 1985 | Cosmetic sets from late Iron Age and Roman Britain | London | Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies | pages 165-192 |