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BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Unique ID: DUR-AE48A9
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A complete button and loop fastener dating from the late Iron Age through to the early Roman period.
The object has a circular "button" with a space in the centre which has a diameter of 31.56 mm and is 9.94 mm wide and 3.89 mm thick. The front of the disc shape has sub-triangular and pointed oval shaped cells which alternately contain red and yellow enamel although some of the enamel is missing . Attached to the inside of the disc is a circular cell with some red enamel still in place. The back of the disk is flat and undecorated and from it projects a sub-oval shaft which splits in half to form a sub-triangular loop.
The object is similar to a Wild (1970) type II ring headed fastener however these are often not enamelled. Wild dates this type of button and loop fastener to the first or second century AD. A similar object is recorded on the PAS database, see DUR-11C5E3.
Class: Wild 1970, type II
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.89 mm
Height: 15.4 mm
Weight: 22.3 g
Diameter: 31.56 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: North East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
District: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Denton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: NZ2118
Four figure Latitude: 54.5568089
Four figure longitude: -1.67680542
1:25K map: NZ2118
1:10K map: NZ21NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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