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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy folding strap clasp. The frame of the clasp is subrectangular with the sides being slightly convex. There is a ridge at each corner of the frame. The end bars of the frame are recessed to take the plate. The folding end of the strap clasp survives and is simply folded around one recessed bar. It has a separate bar mount attached to it with a copper alloy rivet. The plate that would have folded around the opposite recessed bar is entirely missing. The frame is dark greeny grey in colour, whilst the folding end is more even green. The object is 18.28mm long, of which 7.84mm is the folding end. The frame is 10.92mm wide and the folding end 8.44mm wide. The object weighs 1.16g. Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories, London: HMSO, illustrate a number of examples in figure 77. They suggest that folding strap clasps were used with shield shape strap ends. They date from the late 13th to early 15th centuries.
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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