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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy hooked fastener of probable seventeenth century date. The dress fastener comprises a sub-circular plate with one round attachment loop intact, the stub of a second and the third entirely missing. The three circular loops would have been spaced equally around the edge of the plate. Between two of the loops there would have been a rectangular eyelet, also now missing, which would have accommodated a complementary fastener's forward-curving hook. The moulded decoration on the front of the fastener consists of a moulded-in-relief cross of St George within a wreathed border. This hooked tag is very similar to one found at Uffculme, Devon (Robinson 1999, pp. 286-7). One this example there are traces of red enamel on the cross. Artefacts of this date which are decorated with the cross of St George may have been expressions of loyalist support during the English Civil War.
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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