DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN) 936112

Description: An incomplete copper-alloy possible hooked clasp or fastener dating to the post medieval period. The hook piece of a hook and eye fastener although the hook is now broken. The dress fastener comprises and openwork trefoil shaped plate and the stub of a narrowed hook projection. The plate has sub-circualar apertures in each of the three lobes and A lozengiform aperture below and between them. The aperture in the lobe at the top is filled with iron corrosion product, probably from an iron rivet. At the opposite end, the plate narrows above the hook projection and there is a second, smaller aperture also filled with iron corrosion from a probable attachment rivet. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700 Dimensions: 35.50 mm x 15.24 mm x 1.87 mm Weight: 2.73 g A possible parallel can be found illustrated in Read (2001,ref. 828), with other examples of eye- and hook-pieces shown on the same page, classified as Early Post Medieval which he dates to the 17th century.

Date: 1600 - 1700

Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)

Last import: September 22, 2022