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Description: | Fragment of Post Medieval hooked dress fastener of hollow semi-circular section tapering to thinner, closed end from which springs an incomplete integral hook. An offset runs length of long sides to lie flat against flat sheet back-plate, in which there is a 10mm square aperture. The convex face is decorated with a transverse groove at the surviving end and with deeply filed lines in cross-hatched lozengiform pattern. The grooves and lines would have been inlaid with niello. Length (without hook) 20mm, width 12 - 15mm. Cf. LMMC Plate LXXVI no.9. Early 16th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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