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BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Unique ID: LEIC-8B810E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman copper alloy button and loop fastener, 35mm long, 19mm wide and 10mm thick with a weight 6.71 grams. The object consists of an openwork triangular loop with a rectangular cross section. This curves upwards at its apex, forming a short circular sectioned shaft which sits below one end of a sub- circular loop with a semi-circular cross section. Where this joins the shaft, the upper, rounded, surface has a double raised collar running across its width and the opposite end houses a pointed projection which has a raised transverse collar, one end forming the point and the other projecting slightly into the inner hole. This and the opposite collar give the hole a figure of eight shape. The object falls between Wild class II and III. See for comparison, YORYM-B17E6D NMS-A2F35C
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Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 150
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35 mm
Width: 19 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 6.71 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
To be known as: lincolnshire
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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