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Description: | Medieval furniture fitting: incomplete hasp from casket or chest, rectangular, rectangular notch flanked by two curled-over strips to form twin loop for hinge at one end, containing remains of iron pin, broken at other end, sides damaged, 42 (at least, unbent) x 19mm. The face is inscribed: ]ES ?? CASSON / ]EAR ?? NOR ?? (the N’s are retrograde, the incomplete inscription, perhaps in Norman French, contains the word CASSON which relates to the Medieval Latin Cassa, for case or box (Latham 1999, 74)). Inscription: ES . CASSON / EAR . NOR . | Subjects: | hasp | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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