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Description: | Hooked clothing Fasteners of the 16th and 17th century A.D. Description: a cast, copper-alloy hooked clothing fastener, with its wide shouldered plate with its openwork design and rounded projection, which is pierced to take the fixing to the strap rivet which is missing. The plate has three openings two round openings at the top and a lozenge below. The plate narrows and then expands slightly toward the hook which is intact. There are the remains of an iron fixing to the strap rivet in this section which can easily be recognised from a rust mark on the reverse. Measuring: length 36.3mm., widest 15.1mm., 1.4mm. in thickness.
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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