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Description: | Incomplete 16th century silver gilt dress fitting. The object has a trefoil back plate, cut from sheet with scalloped edges. On the front are three bosses of hemispherical section set within rope twist borders, each one set in one of the three trefoils of the back plate. Each boss has a central rounded knop, around which are set three rope twist circles, echoing the trefoil design. At the centre of the three bosses, where they abut each other, is a circular perforation. A grooved scar shows where the missing hook was once fitted. The object has a dull grey patina with feint traces of very thin, pale yellow gilding. A separate small subcircular, slightly concave piece of sheet metal has become detached from the object. This is also pierced. This was probably attached to the rest of the fitting with an additional boss. The fitting is 13.5mm in diameter, 4.8mm thick and weighs 1.61g. An almost identical dress fitting from Gooderstone, Norfolk can be seen in the Treasure Annual Report 2001, number 148. Here a central boss fixes a separate, small sexfoil sheet of metal between the bosses. The shank of this boss continues through to the reverse to form the hook, as was probably the case with the fitting reported here. | 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: | 1500
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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