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Description: | A small, worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy strap clasp of medieval date. The frame has slightly convex sides, with a transverse ridge near each corner. The thicker outer edge may contain remnants of a sheet roller; it is difficult to distinguish this from corrosion products in this area. The bar is offset and narrowed, and the pin is missing. Hooked around the frame is a plate which is very worn and abraded (L.: 28.7mm, W.: 7.5-5.8mm, Th.: 0.6mm). Such sheet plates are usually bent around the pin bar with a slot for the pin. On this example there is no provision for the pin and no (longer) any lower fold. There is a perforation at the attachment end of the plate. It is therefore probable that this object was a clasp rather than a buckle. Similar objects can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 118; fig. 77); they are dated to the second half of the fourteenth century.
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