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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy dress fastener dating to the early Post Medieval period (c. 1500-1650 AD). Early Post Medieval Class A, Type 2 (Read 2008, pp 168-173). The remains of the fastener consists of the one-piece cast eye side of the two-part fastener, oval in plan with three attachment-knops and a small fragment of the rectangular eye loop. The fastener is flat in section. It is engraved and punched on the outer surface with a large flower and stylised leaves, as well as small repetitive annulets following the perimeter of the oval portion. Near where the loop would have been, there is a horizontal decorated band or collar engraved with oblique lines running within it. The underside is undecorated. It measures 33.3 mm long, 28.9 mm wide (maximum), 2.85 mm average diameter (interior loop diameter), 2.20 mm thick and weighs 4.92 grams.For nearly identical examples, cf. Read 2008, Hooked-Clasps & Eyes, p171, Nos. 641-644, all dated to the early Post Medieval period.
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