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Description: | Cu-alloy hollow light-weight dress- or cloak-fastener in the shape of a lion's head dating from the early modern period, i.e. 1800-1900. The lion's head is hollow on the back and displays three small loops which were probably used to attach it to the cloak. Another moulded loop or similar is missing from one side of the lion's head and it can no longer be determined was it looked like. Many such fasteners have been recorded on this database. Many of these have come from coastal areas: Dorset (SOMDOR-FAE740), Hampshire (HAMP1024, HAMP2958, HAMP2579), Cornwall (CORN-7A96E7, CORN-CED143, CORN-48B888). They all tend to be of the same form, although one has been recorded with an oval attachment loop (LANCUM-BB5A45). They appear to form a group with buckles bearing lion's heads on their outer edges (e.g. HAMP-A84EB5, IOW-3C6B17). The buckles and fasteners apparently have a naval or military significance, being found on HMS Innocence (from the second half of the 18th century), and in Spanish colonial military occupation sites in America, dating 1808 to 1814. The presence of these artefacts mainly in coastal counties would seem to confirm their naval connotations.
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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