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Description: | A corroded and incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy fitting probably part of a dress fastener or strap fitting. It is moulded on its front face and flat on the reverse. The remnant is tongue shaped with two symmetrical foliate style knops on either side with the area in-between scalloped to an inward curve. These knops are flanked on one side by a hemispherical terminal end and on the other by the start of a slot which has broken across both outer arms that would have delineated the outer shape of the slot. Along the centre line of the object towards either end there are two circular rivet holes, one at either end, the terminal end hole still contains the copper alloy circular cross section rivet. Similar, possibly related objects can be seen in Read, Hooked Clasps and Eyes (2008) p209 cf No. 758. which are assigned an early Post Medieval date.
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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