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Description: | An incomplete post-Medieval cast copper-alloy dress fastener (c. 1600-c. 1700). This is the hook-piece from a paired hook and eye clasp. The body is sub-rectangular in plan with elaborate moulded and openwork decoration. The decoration comprises near symmetrically arranged triangular, oval and circular. At one end there is a small trefoil lug with a circular aperture. The opposite end is broken and the missing part was probably included a rectangular attachment loop or a hook. The rear face is flat.This fastening has a coarse mid-green patina with some iron staining at the front and rear. The breaks appear to be old.31.2 x 22.8 x 2.3mm. Weight: 3.96g.A complete example with an attachment loop has been recorded from Compton Abbas, Dorset. See, Portable Antiquities Scheme find: DOR-38FC45.A similar example classified as a Class A, Type 15 has been published and dated 17th century (Read 2008: 181, ref: 692).
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