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BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Unique ID: NLM-05CD83
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy button and loop fastener. Cast fastener comprising a toggle formed as a dumbbell button of two conjoined spheres, but with an integrally cast triangular loop springing from a thick central moulding between them, and offset behind the toggle. The loop is now torn. The dumbbell button is a form of Late Iron Age and Early Roman currency. Suggested date: Roman, 43-300.
Height: 26.55mm, Length (toggle): 18.3mm, Diameter: 7.5mm, Weight: 7.79gms.
Class: Dumbbell
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Undergoing further examination at a museum
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18.3 mm
Height: 26.55 mm
Weight: 7.79 g
Diameter: 7.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 1996 - Monday 31st December 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM25613a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: South Ferriby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9922
Four figure Latitude: 53.68508501
Four figure longitude: -0.50245302
1:25K map: SE9922
1:10K map: SE92SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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