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Description: | Ornamental catch or hasp from a small box or casket, consisting of two hinged parts, one much larger than the other. Both are symmetrical in the long axis. The shorter part is sharply indented in outline, and has a sharp-pointed trefoil terminal and a single rivet hole on the median axis. The longer part has deep near-circular indentations midway along each side of its length, with horn-like edges, but widens again towards its terminal in a sub-circular lobe with a single central knop extending beyond this outline: this, it may be supposed, was to engage with some small notched or forked member to effect a closing mechanism. If not made for a box hasp, the hinge might be derived from a book-clasp. The maximum width of the object, at the hinge, is 15mm, and the metal thickness throughout is 1mm. The longer of the two hinged parts is 30mm, and the shorter only 19mm.
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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