LON-F61512: An Iron Age copper alloy toggle

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BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER

Unique ID: LON-F61512

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

A Late Iron Age to Early Roman cast copper alloy button-and-loop fastener with solid double-disc head (1- 200 AD). The fastening has an irregular plan, but has been cast in one piece with a heavy circular-plan loop, above which projects a toggle formed by two conjoined discs. The circular-sectioned loop extends into a slight point before curving upwards and thickening slightly to form a short shaft beneath the toggle. At the top of this shaft, the fastening extends outwards into a platform with the two discs forming a figure 8. On the uppermost surface each disc has a recessed interior to accommodate a decorative insert that is now missing. This would probably have been either enamel or bone. The base of each recessed disc has been drilled with a small circular hole. The outer edges of the discs were originally decorated with a projecting pellet border, but these pellets have mostly been worn away so that only a few survive. The toggle has acquired a dark olive-green patina. The button-and-loop fastener belongs to Wild's (1970) Class I, a type encountered in Britain from the late Iron Age and into the Early Roman period. Dimensions: length: 19.45mm; width: 20.07mm; thickness: 3.61mm; weight: 5.79g. Reference: Wild, J. P. (1970) Button-and-Loop Fasteners in the Roman Provinces Britannia I pp. 137-155

Class: Wild Class I

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: AD 1
Date to: AD 200

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 19.45 mm
Width: 20.07 mm
Thickness: 3.61 mm
Weight: 5.79 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st October 2009

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: West Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Warwick (District)
Parish or ward: Sherbourne (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SU6155
Four figure Latitude: 51.290875
Four figure longitude: -1.126599
1:25K map: SU6155
1:10K map: SU65NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Wild, J.P.	1970	Button-and-loop fasteners in the Roman provinces	London	The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies	139

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Recording Institution: LON
Created: 14 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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