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Description: | Late Medieval to early Post Medieval copper alloy dress fastener, similar to Read's Class C, Type 3. It is sub-rectangular in plan and 'D' shaped in section. It narrows a little toward the top from which the stub of a pin projects. This pin originally formed the hook. The convex outer face is decorated with a moulded or incised cross-hatched diamond grid pattern, probably originally with inlaid niello that is entirely lost. The concave inner face is undecorated. Originally there would have been a flat plate with a square perforation (see SF-FA7545) across this face but it is absent. Dates to between c1450 and c1600 AD.The length is 23mm, width 13mm, depth 7mm, and the weight 3.29g
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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