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LOT 1166
Iron Age Celtic Toggle Fastener
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (11.08 grams, 39 mm).
A bronze clothes fastener formed as a pierced rectangular plate with a right-angled extension terminating in a domed disc with convex underside. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found whilst searching with a metal detector at West Stainmore, Cumbria, UK, in 2017.
Literature
Cf. example from York in Smith, R.A., British Museum Guide to Early Iron Age Antiquities, reprinted Ipswich, 1994, p.151; Murawski, P., Benet's Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom, Ely, 2003, item I13-0204.
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