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Description: | Silver clothes fastener eye plate. A circular silver sheet with twisted silver wire soldered to the reverse bent in the same plane as the disc to form an eye, the ends bent outwards into circles to form two attachment loops. There is a central hollow dome with eight apertures in the sides on the front of the disc topped with a pellet surrounded by a circle of twisted silver wire. The base of the dome is surrounded by another circle of twisted silver wire, a circle of eleven filigree circles and finally with twisted silver wire forming a border at the edge of the plate. The area inside the outer filigree border up to the base of the dome is gilded. Similar to an example recorded as Portable Antiquities Scheme database number BH-0174E0. Read Class B, type 2 (Read, 2008, 159). c. 16th century. Diameter of plate 12mm. Total length 19mm. Weight 1.32g.
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