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STUD
Unique ID: NCL-04C774
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A copper alloy cast-cell stud with enamelled surfaces of late Iron Age or Roman date. In plan, the mount is roughly heart-shaped, but lacking an angular tip, instead having a regular semi-circular shape. The mount consists of a pelta-shaped panel with two circles resting above the concave 'wings' of the pelta. Each circle is raised slightly higher than the pelta panel. Each circle also has enamel set inside it, with four red rectangular cells arranged in a cross pattern and 4 yellow quarters and a small square in the centre. The pelta panel has a third circle of the same design in the centre with three cells to each side, two of which are red in colour and the third and largest in yellow. The three cells are designed to fit an imbrication motif. The reverse of the mount is undecorated, but has two worn rivets (3.5mm diameter) placed immediately behind the centre of the upper circles. Set in from the V-shaped groove of the upper lobes is a circular depression about 2mm in depth and 4mm in diameter. The side face of the upper lobes and V-shaped groove have traces of corrosion or a worn break. It is uncertain which, however, there is enough space that a loop could have joined the mount in this area.
Class: cast-cell stud
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45.67 mm
Width: 32.38 mm
Thickness: 8.22 mm
Weight: 45.2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st June 2007
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Materials and construction
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Uncertain
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Burton Fleming (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA0672
Four figure Latitude: 54.132925
Four figure longitude: -0.379206
1:25K map: TA0672
1:10K map: TA07SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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1 comment
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Anni Byard wrote @ 16:48:01 on the 6th January 2011.
What a wonderful object!
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