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Description: | An incomplete post-Medieval copper-alloy hooked dress fastener (c. 1500-c. 1700).Read Class A, Type 2 (hooked clasp).This is one of two similar objects that would have been used together to join straps or clothing. The other object would have terminated with an attachment loop rather than a hook.The main body of this clasp is lozengiform with a pierced lug at one end and an incomplete hook at the opposite end. There are two similar lugs at the side, one is incomplete. At the centre of the front, within a border of stamped annulets, there is a floriate design consisting of a central stem with fronds and buds or seeds at the sides and top. The design resembles a fleur-de-lis. The rear face is plain.This fastener is drab green with traces of white metal on both faces, possibly tinning. The breaks are old.Length: 46.1mm; width: 27.0mm; thickness: 1.7mm. Weight: 6.80g.A similar dress fastener from East Devon has been published (Read 2008: 170, ref: 639).Read, B. 2008. Hooked Clasps and Eyes. Portcullis Publishing, Langport.
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