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Description: | A copper alloy strap clasp with a moulded crowned head on the outside edge. This outside edge is flat on the upper side and bent through 90 degrees on the reverse. The clasp would have had a rectangular frame with lobed knops at the corner of the outside edge (possibly representing shoulders). The head extends from the centre of the outside edge and is flat on the reverse. It has a pointed chin, an open mouth, wide cheeks and a rounded nose. The eyes are oval. Part of a crown survives, with a central lis.
A similar strap clasp is illustrated in Egan and Pritchard 1991, fig. 78 no. 568, dated to the late fourteenth century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ghey, Eleanor - British Museum | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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