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Description: | A cast copper alloy dress fastener of probable seventeenth century date. The flat oval hook-piece measures 40mm by 23.3mm by 1.6mm and weighs 3.1g. At one end is an incomplete flat hook. Part way along each side there is a small attachment loop, which are both circular with projecting external knops. At the end opposite the hook there is a further similar attachment loop. The front of the plate is decorated with a stamped plume. There are fragmentary traces of the original surface, but most has worn away. The hook-piece would have had a corresponding catch-piece. It is very similar to SOM-66AE51, which is from Curry Rivel, Somerset. | Subjects: | Hook-Piece | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Payne, Naomi - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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