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Description: | LMED Silver book clasp, cast plate with sides tapers to slightly flattened dome with finely modelled terminal of animal-head gripping ball in its mouth, thereby forming transverse loop at right-angles to rest of clasp, silver rivet at concave attachment end, flat back-plate with circular perforation corresponding to dome on front-plate, 7 x 27mm, weight 2.48g. This clasp would have been attached to the end of a leather strap and secured by a pin attached to the cover of a book. Similar, but hinged, examples to this are illustrated and discussed in Egan (Medieval Household 1998, 277-280). | 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: | 1401
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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