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Description: | Incomplete early Post Medieval cast copper alloy eye-section of a hooked clasp (1500-1700 AD). The fitting is in the shape of the Prince of Wales feathers: the heraldic device consisting of three white feathers emerging from a golden coronet. The mount is symmetrical in design. It has a large central feather with a smaller feather on each side. These feathers abut a gently curving band which signifies the coronet. Horizontally in the central space of the band are three equally-spaced raised annulets. There is an attachment loop on either side of the feathers where they meet the coronet, and one further attachment loop at the very top of the central feather. Beneath the coronet is a smaller band with decoration of raised vertical lines. Projecting from this section on one side of the fitting is one side of the broken eye-section; this would have been one side of a complete sub-rectangular eyelet. The clasp fitting measures 36.1mm long, 21.9mm wide and 3.2mm thick. It weighs 6.97 grams. A similar example is illustrated in Read (2008), p. 175 ref. 662.
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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