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BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Unique ID: LON-E50488
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete late Iron Age Romano-British cast copper-alloy button and loop fastener dating from 300 BC - AD 100. This is a Wild Class 1, with a solid double-boss head and heavy ring-loop (Wild 1970:137-139, fig I no I). The fastener is formed of a double-boss head consists of two parallel identical joining flat circular bosses with the remains of an looped integral shank which is then bent at a roughly 90 degree angle.
Dimensions: length: 19.26mm; height: 11.15mm; thickness: 11.08mm; weight: 4.54g
Wild explains (1970:138) that there is only one example of this basic type known from a purely Roman context, that from Brough-under-Stainmore. Pre-Roman forms are known from Lydney, Glous, and Glastonbury. The type is probably British, manufactured during the pre-Roman period and the early years of the Roman occupation.
Other examples on the database are SF-E503E7, IOW-91F702 and BH-B21F44.
Class: Wild class 1
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa 300 BC
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.26 mm
Height: 11.15 mm
Thickness: 11.08 mm
Weight: 4.54 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 21st July 2019
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: East Hampshire (District)
Parish or ward: Ropley and Tisted (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU6433
Four figure Latitude: 51.09274836
Four figure longitude: -1.08749698
1:25K map: SU6433
1:10K map: SU63SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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