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Description: | Incomplete stamped copper alloy clothes fastener with three trefoil knops, one on each side of the fastener, and the third, now incomplete, at the opposite end to the edge of the attachment loop. The rest of the loop, or eyelet, with its rectangular aperture, is missing. The upper face is decorated with a central stem and flower head, with foliage either side, in the form of a serrated leaves, within a border of annulets. This is the eyelet half of a hook-and-eyelet dress fastener.Bailey (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 100, Fig.2.42, which is dated to the 17th century.
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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