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Medieval / Post-Medieval tin alloy dress fastener
A cast dress fastener made of tin alloy. Its form consists of two solid decorative circular domed attachments, one at each end of a 'C' shaped bar. The bar is rectangular in cross-section.
Each disc face is decorated with a hollow sexfoil in relief. The petals of the sexfoil are vesica-shaped and hollow. Each petal is connected to the next by a similarly shaped vesica at right angle and there is a small dot in each void between the petals.
The decoration is less clear on one of the discs.
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Site Name: Pembrokeshire, West Wales
Notes: Part of Mr Colin Scale's personal collection of metal-detected finds discovered on Pembrokeshire beaches (Newgale, Amroth, Whitesands &'Wiseman's Bridge) during the 1980s and 1990s.