MEDIEVAL DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)

1450

Late medieval or early post-medieval copper alloy double sharp-hooked dress fastener formed of single rectangular sheet plate (now distorted) with terminal hooks, one of which is missing. The front is decorated with three conjoined parallelograms formed from lines of finely engraved interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed triangles. Read 2008 early post-medieval Class R type 1. Length 50mm. Width 9mm. Dates to the later 15th - early 16th century.