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Description: | A silver possible dress fastening. Circular in shape with a diameter of 9mm, the front face is rounded and the back face concave. The front face is decorated with two boarder bands of filigree and within these there is a circle of eight projecting rounded silver knops, each one with a filigree boarder around it. There is then a central silver rounded knop, which is slightly larger than the others, also with a filigree boarder around it. On the back face there are two parallel strips of silver wire, each terminating with a closed loop, these loops project beyond the edges of the back face and can be seen from the front of this object. The other terminals of these wires are incomplete and missing due to old breaks. This object is most likely to be a dress fastening of some kind, perhaps the incomplete ends of the silver wires on the reverse originally formed a hook. It is most likely to be post medieval and c17th century in date, due its style. It will be examined in more detail under the Treasure Act. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1650
1750 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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