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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy dress fastener of Post-Medieval date, probably seventeenth century (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Length: 25.1mm; width: 18.7mm and 1.6mm thick. Weight: 1.74g. The fastener is largely sub-oval in plan and would have had an integral hook or loop which is now lost due to an old transverse break. At the end opposite the break, and also at each side, there are the remains of small integral perforated knops; now mostly lost. The front of the plate is decorated with a moulded floriate motif within a border consisting of small pellets. The rear face is flat and plain. The object is corroded but tinning remains on the front. Bailey (2004 p 100 fig.2.42 and 2.44) illustrates very similar fasteners.
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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