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Description: | Loop part of a two part cast copper alloy dress fastener of Post-Medieval, seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). The fastener is flat and piriform (drop shaped) in plan with an integral loop at the wider end; the loop is broken on the outer edge and the inner edge curves down on each side to meet at a centre point, flanking this point the border on the main plate curls inwards, continuing the curves. At the widest point there are integral perforated knops, one each side, which would have been used to sew the clasp onto clothing, one is broken. The end opposite the loop is broken with an old break which has removed the terminal and about a quarter of the plate; from parallel examples the terminal would have had two more sewing holes flanking a scallop shell shaped knop projecting from the pointed end.The front of the fastener is decorated with a raised design, featuring a probable bust flanked by two pellets with a piriform loop above all within a raised border. This design has been identified as a bust although it can also resemble a winged insect. In the low level fields, created by the raised design the object has been enameled. Traces of white and light greyish-green enamel survive. The rear face is flat and plain. Read (2008, p178, no.679) illustrates an identical fastener which he dates to the 17th century.
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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