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Description: | Hook-piece from an interesting book clasp. Most of these date to the sixteenth century, or possibly later, but this is unusual in that it has certainly earlier decoration. The attachment end is strongly flared and is cut into two incurves separated by a 'grooved aperture'. This is characteristic of 14th-century composite buckles and strap-ends and must be indicative of a similar date. To either side of the grooved aperture is a ring-and-dot motif, both with two rings and with an AE rivet passing through the centre. Above the attachment end, the clasp then flares very slightly to the hooked end and has another two similar ring-and-dot motifs, this time set longitudinally. The one nearest the hook also has an AE rivet. The three rivets retain a separate full-width, full-length backplate. The hooked end has elegant shoulders and a neat hook. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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