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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy double hooked fastener. Consisting of a lozenge shaped sheet, measuring 37mm by 37mm in size. The front face of this lozenge shaped sheet is decorated with eight incised straight lines, radiating from a central rivet, there is also an incised boarder line with smaller transverse incisions around it. The central rivet attaches this sheet on its back face to a rectangular shaped bar, which is incomplete due to an old break. The surviving length is 52mm and its width is 8mm. The complete end of this bar projects beyond the edge of the lozenge shaped sheet and terminates in a hook, which curves round towards the back face. This hook is tapering to a point but its tip is missing due to an old break. The front face of the bar, which is visible beyond the edge of the lozenge shaped plate, is decorated with an incised zigzag. It seems likely that the other end of the bar would also have terminated in a hook. A similar double hooked fastener, found in Norwich, also has a central lozenge shaped front plate and a rectangular bar terminating in two hooks riveted to its back face, it has been dated to between 1400 and 1600 (Margeson 1993, 18, fig 9). | Subjects: | double hooked fastener | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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