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Description: | A copper alloy dress fastener with a hook at each end and which is 78.3mm long. The fastener is formed from a strip of copper alloy which expands into a shield in the centre and is bent into a hook at each end. The fastener is 8.6mm thick from the front of the shield to the back of the hooks. The shield has a flat top and a pointed base and the front is decorated with three irregular rows of punched circles, one down the centre and one along each edge. It is 15.9mm high from the top of the shield to the bottom.Double hooked fasteners are described in Bailey (2004) and are dated to the Tudor period. A similar but smaller excavated example without the shield is illustrated in Ottaway and Rogers (2002, 2919) and dated to circa 1540. This fastener is probably Tudor in date as well.
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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