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BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Unique ID: KENT-71F4E8
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete, cast copper alloy button and loop fastener of Iron Age to Early Roman date c.100 BC - 100 AD.
Description: This is a variant of Wild's Class 1 fastener. With two solid, slightly unequal, conjoined 'swollen' crescent shaped bosses. The small, mostly missing, loop divides on the reverse side at the hole in the centre. The button and loop fastener is a dark green colour with some light green visible.
Dimensions: Length 30.84mm, width 17.48mm, thickness 5.04mm and weight 13.58g.
Discussion: An example of this button and loop fastener can be seen in Ralph Jackson 1990 p39 figure 85. Jackson dates this particular example to between the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.
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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 100 BC
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.84 mm
Width: 17.48 mm
Thickness: 5.04 mm
Weight: 13.58 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Dover (District)
Parish or ward: Denton with Wootton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR2047
Four figure Latitude: 51.17988377
Four figure longitude: 1.14631144
1:25K map: TR2047
1:10K map: TR24NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson, R. | 1990 | Camerton: A Catalogue of the Late Iron Age and Early Roman Metalwork | London | British Museum Press | p39 | plate 85 |
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