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Description: | A complete and well preserved double hooked fastener. This fastener has been cast in one, it measures 55mm in length and 17mm in width. It conists of a central flat rectangular panel, 28mm in length by 17mm in width, with two rectangular shaped arms (20mm length, 5mm width) each with a hooked terminal. Each arm projects at right angles from the centre of both of the short edges of the rectangular plate. The front face of the rectangular plate is decorated with a double boarder of small oval shaped incisions, three transverse rows of the same decoration cuts across the plate to form four fields, each of these has a ring and dot motif within it, these motifs almost form a parallel line. The projecting hooks taper to a point, the tip of one hook is missing due to an old break, the complete hook curves back onto itself so that the tip of the hook is almost touching the back face of its arm. No exact parallel could be found for this double hooked fastener but cast examples with decoration are known and believed to be medieval in date (Margeson 1993, 18-19). | 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: | 1066
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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