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Description: | Copper-alloy lock hasp made in two pieces. The first is the plate - a piece of strip, now 40 mm long, which is broken at a perforation at one end. It flares very slightly from 6 mm at the worn break to a maximum of 8 mm, then tapers again more strongly to 3 mm wide. This end is then tightly curled under to form a hinge loop. The edges of this strip are not completely regular and there is an area of hammering along one edge. At its widest point the strip has two longitudinally set perforations, which contain the ends of a second piece of strip which forms the hasp loop. This strip is very narrow (cross-section 2 x 1 mm) and stands in a U shape 9.5 mm tall and 8 mm wide. The ends are passed through the holes in the first strip and then hammered outwards. This hasp is similar to iron examples, thought to be from boxes, excavated in London (Egan 1998, 212-226) but is less similar to the only copper-alloy example, thought to be from a satchel (Egan 1998, 336). The iron examples come from contexts of c. 1270-c. 1450, with one exception (perhaps intrusive) coming from a context dated to c. 1150-c. 1200.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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