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Description: | A complete post-medieval copper-alloy dress fastener, of Read's Class A Type 11, dating to the period c.AD 1500-1700. The fastener consists of a moulded openwork rectangle which is bent slightly backwards. This narrows to the neck, before flaring out to a knop at each side. Placed centrally between these knops is a moulded openwork lozenge, flanked by two small circular apertures. The frame of the body consists of a moulded openwork heart, the central indentation of which forms the lower two sides of the lozenge. An inverted trefoil expands from the lower point of the lozenge into the centre of the heart. The termination of the heart expands into a wide colar, which narrows to form a lozenge with a circular aperture at its centre, at the terminus of the fastener. There is a white metal coating in places on both the obverse and reverse surface. The edges are rough, and the object is quite worn. The reverse is flat and undecorated.The dress fastener measures 41.86mm in length, 21.47mm in width, 1.72mm in thickness and weighs 5.31g.A similar example can be found in Read (2008) p.180 no.689.
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