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Description: | Cast copper alloy blunt-hooked dress fastener eyelet with rectangular eyelet and three attachment holes. The eyelet is flat in section and circular in plan with three protruding attachment loops, the one opposing the rectangular eyelet having a knop on the end of the attachment hole. The eyelet is decorated on its upper face with a floral pattern of openwork consisting of a central six-petalled flower surrounded by four sets of two scroll-like tendrils emanating from the central flower. The decoration looks 17th-century in date, when compared to decorated mounts of the period. 17th century Read (1995) illustrates two examples of the same sort of eyelet with No.771 & No.772 on p.119, which he dates to the 16th to 17th centuries. Bailey (1992) in Detector Finds illustrates a similar eyelet with different decoration on p.32, No.28 which he dates to the 16th to 17th centuries.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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