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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy book clasp. The catchplate of the clasp is preserved, although the iron bar and hookplate are missing due to old breaks. The plate is flat, rectangular in plan and has a pointed triangular shaped exterior edge. The interior edge has small rectangular projections at top and bottom that would once have held a short iron bar. There are still very short sections of the iron bar preserved within the projections, which have signs of extensive iron corrosion. Two single small circular holes in the middle of either end of the plate would have once held rivets to attach the plate to the book itself. The plate measures 35.56mm in width, 17.99mm in height, 0.91mm in thickness, and weighs 3.40g.
Book clasps such as this are noted from excavated contexts in Medieval London, with good parallels to this example still in situ on the original book apparent in Egan (2005: nos. 592-593) and dated to the 15th-16th centuries AD. | Subjects: | Catchplate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brown, Andrew | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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