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Description: | Half of a cast copper alloy miniture hinge, probably from a book or small casket. The hinge is a tube formed by bending a squared piece round in a circle, it contains the remains of the central pin. Attached the the hinge part is a triangular plate with two rivet holes in the corners by the hinge and an open work heart decoration. The point of the plate oposite the hinge is extended out into a bar terminating in a triangle containing another rivet hole. One long curved rounded knop extends from each side of the bar. The triangular plate has been bent in half and broken along the bend, the damage appears old.
The use of a heart as decoration suggests a Post Medieval date, 16th/17th centurys AD.
It is 29.9mm long, 12.2mm wide, the plate is 1.5mm thick and the hinge 3.0mm; it weighs 1.09 grams. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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