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Record ID: HESH-145E67
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver toggle or fitting with globular knop on each side. Narrow body expanding at each end into a globule, creating an overall dumb-bell shape. Globules are of un-uniform size.
Copper-alloy and bone examples of similar objects have been dated to the Iron Age, a similar shaped toggle can be found in Read (2005). An Iron Age object of this type is extremely rare.
Analysis results of the toggle show that it is 97% silver the rest being copper, with traces of lead and gold; the amount of gold indicates that this toggle is not of Iron Age date, the manufacturing technique correspond…
Created on: Thursday 12th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Ross-on-Wye', grid reference and parish protected.
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