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Description: | An Early Post-Medieval dress fastener, or clasp. 1600 -1700. Described by Brian Read, in Hooked Clasps and Eyes, as: A wire bent into a slightly open bight, the two halves forming part of the shank, and each end tightly spiralling inwards; a second wire bent into a tight bight and hooked at the bottom is set inside the open bight; two wires, each tightly sparalled inwards at both ends, lie one each side of the shank and the whole is seized together by a thinner gauge wire. After securing, the spiralling ends have been flattened. (Page 147, Figs. 576 - 578). An attaching link is still hooked aorund the end loop.
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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