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Description: | A Post Medieval cast copper alloy eye-section of a two-piece clasp (1550-1650 AD). The fitting is flat backed and has a moulded front. The central plate is oval in plan with three attachment-knops and two ornamental knops. Within the oval plate is a raised oval panel bearing a foliate design. The raised oval panel is contained within a beaded border. At one edge of the plate is a rectangular loop that is the eye-section. This is flanked on either side by a small attachment knop to allow the fitting to be sewn onto a garment. At the opposite point of the oval plate is a further projecting attachment loop. The fitting would have had a corresponding hook-section of similar design that would have enabled the two to hook together and form a clasp. The eye-section measures 38.8mm long, 21.9mm wide and 2.1mm thick; it weighs 6.42 grams. Read (2008: 175, No.664) illustrates a similar example which he categorises as Early Post Medieval Class A Type 8. Read (2008, 164-165) assigns single blunt-hooked and eye clasps of Type A to 1550-1650 AD, but suggests it is reasonable to assume they continued in use throughout the 17th century.
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