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Description: | A small cast copper-alloy latch or hook-clasp for fastening a box. 26.1mm in length and 6.1mm in width at its widest point. At one end is a flat circular loop of 6.5mm in external diameter with a central perforation of 2.3mm in diameter. The other end is similarly flattened, but the ring is incomplete and probably originally had a pointed hook tip. Running centrally and longitudinally at right angles to the centre of the back face of the clasp there is a flat central ridge, triangular in shape, its centre projecting 2.9mm out from the back face. This clasp would have been attached to the box by a single pin or stud through the flattened ring on which it would swivel, and the hook would be brought down into an eye or around a headed stud to fasten the lid or other attachment. This example is similar to one from Coddenham, Suffolk (see SF-74FF25). They are both middle Anglo-Saxon in date.
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