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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: SOM-41EAF8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A post-medieval copper-alloy dress fastener, sub lozengiform. This is the hook section of such fasteners, with its rectangular loop truncated around halfway through the recurve. The central area of the plate has a raised foliate design with a central quartered berry and four leaves in cross formation with four small circular berries in the angles. This design is within a broadly lozengiform line border formed of four lines with scrolled ends; at the middle corners these form a pair of projecting rounded knops at either side. There are two pierced lobes flanking the start of the hook, one either side of a billeted transverse band. At the opposite end to the hook is a third pierced lobe with projecting scrolled terminals to either side, giving a fleur-de-lis terminal. The reverse is plain and flat.
A parallel can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 179; ref. 681), with other examples of eye- and hook-pieces shown on the same page, classified as his Early post-medieval Class A, Type 10. This piece is corroded but retains some small traces of a white metal coating. The terminal has been twisted very slightly.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44.2 mm
Height: 4.5 mm
Width: 24.6 mm
Thickness: 2.5 mm
Weight: 8.25 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st March 2014
Personal details
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Recorded by: Mr Robert Webley
Identified by: Mr Robert Webley
Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 16615
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Devon (County)
District: Mid Devon (District)
To be known as: Halberton CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
- Read, B., 2008 Hooked-Clasps and Eyes Langport: Portcullis Publishing 179 , 681
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