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Description: | Copper alloy hookplate from a book clasp, 39mm long It is rectangular, mostly 13.5mm wide, with a flared end 22mm wide at widest point.The flared portion of the clasp is decorated on the upper surface with three piercings side by side and a surface ornament of feathers or herringbone-texturing. The body of the plate is 34mm long, from one end of which the clasp itself extends a further 4mm and is curved over. The plate thickness is 1mm. There is also a thin copper-alloy backplate fixed with a single rivet to the centre of the clasp, and extending towards the flared end, where it is bent away from the clasand was formerly fastened by two smaller rivets, both of which remain in the main clasp plate. (S Margeson,1993,p74,fig 40.) | Subjects: | hookplate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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