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Title: CLOTHING ACCESSORY [Go to resource]
Description: A copper alloy ornamental probable dress accessory. The object is sub-oval and openwork, measuring 36.8mm long, 18.7mm wide and 3.9mm thick. One side is broken with the edge missing. The end terminals are trilobed and the sides are scallop shaped with C scrolls joining the side and end elements. There are four rounded holes in a square in the centre with an area of faint illegible decoration on the area between the holes. There is an incised four petalled flower with stylised foliage on each end terminal and a swirled six petalled flower on each side element. The C scrolls are also emphasised with incised scrolled lines. On the reverse is a thin circular sectioned bar which is bent down and soldered to the plate at each end, though one end has become detached. The metal is dark green with a smooth shiny patina on the front. The decoration is similar to that on buttons and belt fittings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Bailey's "Detector Finds 2", 2001, and "Buttons and Fasteners", 2004) so it is likely that this object dates from the same period. Original Image Publisher: http://finds.org.uk Source: Portable Antiquities Identifier: http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... Go to resource More Like this...
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