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Post-Medieval silver gilt dress fastner
Silver 'dress clasp loop' decorated with trefois in plain wire arranged around single pellets. A central trefoil sits within a triangular frame cable wire border. The external (decorated) face is gilded. One large perforation cut through the backplate (now incomplete) would have received the fastening hook.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
2015.21H
Find Information
Site Name: Bronington, Wrexham
Collection Method: metal detector
Date: 2011
Notes: Found sometime between summer and autumn 2011.
Acquisition
Treasure (1996 Treasure Act)
Measurements
width / mm:14.3
width / mm:13.7
thickness / mm:1.2
weight / g:1.1
Material
silver gilt
Techniques
gilded
soldered
Location
In store
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