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Description: | An unusual medieval/post-medieval large double-hooked dress fastener, with the hooked bar missing and a separate lozengiform front plate riveted to a hook with a smaller additional square plate in centre. The smaller plate has four engraved grooves producing a quatrefoil with lozengiform foils; the damaged larger plate is decorated with lines of finely engraved rocker-arm decoration, forming a border and a cross with arms running from point-to-point. There remains a grooved circular cut-out at each surviving angle (one missing) and at the mid-point between each angle. A dark 'shadow' on the reverse indicates the position of the missing hooked sheet bar (running between opposed angles). The surviving portion of the object measures 47 x 48mm, with a thickness of 1mm. Compare with Norwich Households no. 81. and Read 2008 early post-medieval Class S. The object dates from the 15th-16th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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