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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy clothing fastener, dating from the post-Medieval period.The piece comprises a flat-sectioned plate, of truncated-oval form, with the remnant of a rectangular frame extending from the flat base. A perforated drop-shaped lobe surmounts the plate, with a second such lobe projecting from halfway down the left hand side of the of the plate, with which it forms a right angle; a third, damaged, lobe extends from the right hand side. A simple punched floral pattern decorates the upper surface of the plate, consisting of a flower with central stem, a head made up of rings, and an angled petal on either side. A perimeter border of punched rings surrounds this design. The decoration springs from directly above a transverse ridge which marks the junction between the plate and the broken frame below.Length: 36mm; width: 26.7mm; thickness: 1.4mm; weight: 4.88g.This piece represents one half of Brian Read's Class A, Type 2 'hooked-clasp and eye' fittings and would have operated in conjunction with an opposing, hooked, half. For parallels, see Read 2008: 171, nos. 641 - 644.
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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