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Description: | Copper-alloy hinged terminal from a book clasp of late medieval date. It has cast relief decoration which is zoomorphic or anthropomorphic in style. There is a face mask with stylised hair pr ears, bulging almond-shaped eyes and a wide pronounced nose. There is a centrally placed perforation, 3mm in diameter, through the forehead area which would originally have fitted over a peg on the opposite cover of the book. The side projections at the top, originally part of an integral hinge bar for a folded plate, are broken and missing. These breaks are old. At the other end is a terminal is in the form of a loop with tri-lobed end and transverse circular perforation. There is a even dark green patina overall.Length 30mm, width 15.6mm and 5mm thick. See similar hinged book clasps in Egan 1998, fig. 214, and a close parallel for the decoration at IOW-2A7626.
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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