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Description: | A post-medieval copper-alloy dress fastener, sub lozengiform. This is the eye section of such fasteners, with its rectangular loop intact. The central area of the plate has a raised foliate design with a central quartered berry and four leaves in cross formation with four small circular berries in the angles. This design is within a broadly lozengiform line border formed of four lines with scrolled ends, at the middle corners forming a pair of projecting rounded knops at either side. There are two pierced lobes flanking the hook, one either side. At the opposite end to the hook is a third pierced lobe with projecting knops to either side, formed also of the scrolling. The reverse is plain and flat.A parallel can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 179; ref. 683), with other examples of eye- and hook-pieces shown on the same page, classified as his Early post-medieval Class A, Type 10. This piece is corroded but retains its white metal coating. The knop end has been bent upwards slightly.
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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