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Description: | Cast copper-alloy post-medieval clothing fastening with a central plate flanked by a loop and hook. The hook is D shaped in section with a flat back and bent 180 degrees backwards. At the top of the hook is a raised transverse collar from which rises a moulded foliate openwork triangular section which forms the lower half of the plate. This section has five holes between the curled leaves. Above this is the remainder of the plate formed of a plain rectangle with a concave front forming a transverse groove between raised upper and lower ends. The loop is rectangular, joined to the plain rectangular section of the plate and the same width. The plate and loop have a flat back. The underlying metal is orange/brown, but it is mostly covered in a grey patina with patches of green and light corrosion product. The entire piece is 30.4mm long (after bending), 15.3mm wide, 2.1mm thick on the plate, and 11.9mm high to the top of the hook; it weighs 3.00 grams. See Read (2008) publishes an identical example: page 90, No. 313, classified as Class E, Type 2 which he dates to c.1500-1625 AD.
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