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Description: | Small flat hook-piece from a copper-alloy book clasp, now very corroded and with irregular, perhaps fragmentary, edges. Originally roughly rectangular, it has a flared attachment end which has a deep central notch and a rounded lobe to either side. In each lobe is a separate copper-alloy rivet. In the centre of the clasp is a large ring-and-dot motif consisting of a deep dot and two shallow concentric rings. At the other end is a relatively long hook. The half of the clasp nearest the hook has an iron sheet on the reverse, but it is not clear how this is attached. The flared end is 11 mm in surviving width, the main body of the clasp is about 9 mm in surviving width, and the surviving length is 27.5 mm. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1500
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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