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Description: | A cast, copper alloy hook piece from a Post Medieval hook and eye dress fastener, dating from AD 1500-1650. The body is sub-lozenge shaped. At one end is a knop which is pierced for attaching to the clothing. There are two further projecting pierced knops for attachment, one in the centre of each side (one now missing). Projecting from the other end of the plate is a wide and blunt hook which is broken where it would have curved over. The front of the plate is silvered but does not appear o have a design. Compare SUSS-A7FB53 which cites Read 2008, Hooked-Clasps & Eyes, p171, Nos. 641-644, for almost identical examples, all dated to the early Post Medieval period. See also a similar fastener illustrated in Bailey, 2004, Buttons and Fasteners 500BC-AD1840, Greenlight Publishing, page 100, number 2.44, and compare SWYOR-3576A4 and SWYOR-9BAA47.
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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