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button and loop fastener
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2011-09-16 16:13:38
Title
button and loop fastener
Description
English: Cast copper alloy Roman button and loop fastener. Length 29mm, width 17mm, thickness 21mm, weight 15.44g. The fastener comprises a head which is circular in plan and hemispherical in section. The upper surface of the head is decorated with a triskele type pattern. From the underside of the head, there extends at right angles, a triangular openwork loop. The loop is sub-rectangular in section. It can be classified as Wild Class III, dating to the late 1st- 2nd century AD.
Wild, J P, 1970 Button-and-loop fasteners in the Roman provinces, vol 1
Depicted place (County of findspot) Gloucestershire
Date between 75 and 200
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FindID: 462814
Old ref: GLO-367842
Filename: 4622buttonandloopfastener.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/346262
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/346262/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/462814
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