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Description: | Post medieval copper alloy hook piece from a hook and eye fastener. The fastener has a central drop-shaped (piriform) plate with an extended terminal knop at the point and the remains of the hook extending from the broad end. The terminal knop is elongated with a rounded end and three incised lines running down the length. The hook is rectangular in section but ends in an old break at the start of the bend. There are four sewing loops around the end of the plate, two at the widest point of which one is damaged but complete and the other still has casting flash in the loop, and two broken holes flanking the terminal at the pointed end.The front of the plate is decorated with a raised design surrounded by white, green and dark blue enamel. The raised design is of a facing human head with straight hair and large ears and outlines of curved drop shapes extending from the head at diagonal corners. The top of the head is closest to the hook. Above and to either side of the head are groups of three pellets. Below the chin is a line of two pellets flanked by indistinct raised lines. In the field around this design is enamel, green to either side of the head and white above and below; the different areas are marked off by the curved shapes. In the white enamel are circles of dark blue enamel and there are traces of blue enamel on one of the pellets above the head.The fastener is now 40.3mm long, 23.1mm wide and 2.9mm thick. It weighs 4.54g.Read (2008, p178) illustrates a similar fastener no.678, which is the corrisponding loop part, he dates them to the 17th century. SWYOR-E62D86 and LVPL-60F412 also have a similar design and are the corrisponding loops to this hooked piece, SOM-E94651 appears to also be the same design. This group of enamelled objects are known as Stuart or Surrey enamels.
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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