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Description: | A complete post-Medieval copper-alloy wire eye section from a hook and eye clasp (1600-1700).In plan, it is symmetrical. The eye is made from a single piece of wire, circular in cross-section, that has been bent in the middle to form an eye and each end has been bent to form an attachment loop. The eye is for a fastening hook and the two loops were for sewing the fitting to textiles. This eye section does not appear to have been attached to a separate plate (as occurs on Type B examples).The fastener is partially corroded and has traces of gilding.Length: 33.73mm; width: 24.71mm; diameter of wire: 2.67mm. Weight: 4.17g.For an illustrated example, see Read 2008: 156.
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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