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Description: | a cast copper alloy Post-Medieval clothing fastener. It is a plate of roughly triangular shape with moulded decoration at one terminal from which protrudes a single pierced loop. There are two further pierced loops,with curvy line decorated moulding between them, one on either side of the base of the plate. There is a recurved blunt hook in the centre of the base. The fastener measures 37.4mm in length, 23.86mm in width and weighs 8.81g. The three loops allowed the fastener to be attached to a garment or strap. This type of clothes fastener was in common use during the 16th-17th centuries. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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