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Description: | Copper alloy S-shaped belt hook fastener of Post-Medieval date. Each end of the fastener terminates in a moulded snake's head with the decoration extended to all faces. The brow, eyes and mouth is well defined on each head, and there is a suggestion of scales, although these are now badly worn. The object then narrows from each head before expanding again at the centre of the body of the snake. Where the object expands there is an area of moulded decoration comprising two parallel lateral ridges with two pairs of raised semi circles projecting from either side of the ridges on opposing sides of the object. Between the semi circles there is a further moulded motif, most likely foliate but now heavily worn.
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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