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Description: | Incomplete late 16th/ 17th century copper alloy book clasp (hook piece) with broken edge at the 'expanded' end. It measures 39.4mm long and is max.17.6mm wide at the damaged, expanded end. It weighs 2.68g.The curled hook piece is 4mm wide, the trunk of the book clasp 13mm wide. It is decorated with stamped decoration consisting of two incomplete arches within which is a fleur-de-lis atop a foliate display. The arches are above a band of pellets flanked by a line above and below. Underneath this (and largely obscured by some kind of dark-coloured concretion) is a quatrefoil with a curlicue X on either side. Above and below the quatrefoil is a fleur-de-lis, an arrow above and below the X. Another band of pellets appears to bound the decoration at the hook end.Just before the damaged expanded end is a piercing 1.5mm wide with a stamped double-ring around. The expanded end may have been crenellated, the corners reaching out into long points.The reverse also has signs of dark-coloured concretion.A similar excavated example from Botolph Street, Norwich, gives a late 16th century date.
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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