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Description: | Medieval copper-alloy clasp with animal-head decoration, 27mm long, 16mm wide and 4mm thick. The object's shape resembles a rectangle with bulging sides. One of the short sides is a bar 10mm long; the opposite side, and just under half of the length, is taken up by a plate with a rounded edge, decorated to resemble the head of an animal, probably a cat or possibly a bear. In the centre of the rounded edge is a triangular nose protruding 2mm above the surface. Either side of this are two circular blind-drilled eyes, with two incised lines extending from the eyes to the edge of the clasp. These lines run obliquely upwards and resemble eyebrows. Above the eyebrows, seven vertical incised lines, like a fringe of hair, fill the rest of the face. Where it joins the main bar, which rises 2mm from the surface, it has engraved ears which stand proud of the face. Clasps of this type date to 1300 to 1400 AD and are not common. Those known hitherto generally have crowned human heads as decoration. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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