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Description: | The cast copper-alloy terminal 'loop' from a medieval book clasp. As with such objects the body is broadly semi-circular with a central hole. At the flat end protrude two integral lugs, pierced, and retaining an axis bar. Folded around the axis bar is the bottom of the hinged, double-sided plate to which a strap would have been riveted. The plate is a mid-green colour, and thus of a different alloy to the terminal which is the dark grey of gunmetal. The element itself terminates in a small, perpendicular loop, pierced centrally and with angled edges (Th.: 5.6mm). This artefact is comparable to an example illustrated in Egan (1998, 278-79; ref. 925), dated to the late 14th/early 15th century AD. | Subjects: | clasp | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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