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Description: | Forged and folded copper alloy rivet or staple with flattened terminal with two parts which would have originally been folded flat to secure the attached surface. This folding rivet may have been used to repair sheet copper-alloy vessels, but as it is more robust, it is more likely to have used as a staple or tack. The protruding head of the tack would have been clinched over the edge of the wooden or metal surface, so that both sides of the head were flat and at right angles to the body of the tack.Egan (2005) illustrates similar examples on page 101, Fig.87, which are dated to the Post-medieval period.
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