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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy hook-piece from a post-medieval dress fastener (17th century AD). The majority of the artefact survives, including the main, shallowly convex, oval plate. At one narrow end a wide hook emerges (W.: 5.9mm), curving upwards slightly before a break. At the other end there is a small projecting circular loop. There are two further circular loops on each side of the oval, just above the hook. The small holes may have been used for sewing the object to an item of dress (Geake 2001, 42). On the upper surface of the plate there are raised curvilinear ridges which create numerous broadly lozengiform sunken cells in a geometric pattern. Within the larger cells are four pellets arranged in a diamond. The fields are filled with white and blue enamel, much of which survives. The lower surface of the object is plain, with the metal corroded to a red-brown colour with a covering of light green corrosion product.Many similar fasteners with ovoid plates and three loops have been recorded on this database, although those with enamelled decoration (e.g. SOMDOR-D79D21) are in a minority. The presence of enamelling on such dress accessories perhaps suggests a date later in the 17th century. Other contemporary enamelled fasteners, including buttons, seem to display a limited palette of enamels - mainly whites, blues and greens. This artefact has been published in Read (2008, 169; ref. 632).
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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