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Description: | Worn and corroded post-medieval tinned copper alloy S-shaped clasp (length 34mm, width 19mm), cast in the round, with a central multiple knopped band with foliate fringe to both sides, from both ends of which a longtidinally grooved neck with a dragon-headed terminal emerge to form the loops. One loop retains two plain linked copper alloy rings, both c. 15-16mm diam. Cf. Egan (2005), 47, no. 172, 'An accomplished accessory in Renaissance style. There are relatively few parallels, suggesting a brief vogue for the use of this type of belt connector (before a fairly recent revival); presumable mid 16th - early 17th century...where parallels in contemporary Frisian paintings from the 1540s to 1620s are noted in men's costume' . Mid 16th - early 17th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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