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BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Unique ID: SUR-D09FC8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An complete button and loop fastener of late Iron Age or early Roman date. The fastener has a lozengiform plate with six cells of unequal size to take enamel which is now missing. From the back emerges a narrow loop which is set parallel to the plate.
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 50 BC
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44.22 mm
Width: 18.54 mm
Weight: 13.76 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 11-1559
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Surrey (County)
District: Epsom and Ewell (District)
Parish or ward: Ewell (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ2162
Four figure Latitude: 51.344214
Four figure longitude: -0.2641
1:25K map: TQ2162
1:10K map: TQ26SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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