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Description: | Terminal of a copper alloy hasp, 32.98 mm in length, 12.86mm at its widest point, 9.94mm thick and weighing 14.23 grammes. This object is in the shape of an animal head. It is roughly triangular in plan and cross section, with each side of the head being subrectangular. The top of the terminal is convex, whilst below is flat. The end, which has broken from the rest of the hasp has a moulding, semicircular in plan, that is decorated with two parallel grooved lines. There are a further two grooved lines below the moulding. The head deliberately has no ears and there are no eyes to be seen, though there are two parallel, incised ?V? shaped lines half way along the terminal, giving the impression of eyebrows. The snout tapers towards the end, but is damaged at its tip. It is impossible to tell whether the snout would have been square ended or whether there would have been a loop, as in other examples. The flat underside of the terminal has two circular concave depressions, which may have fitted over corresponding lugs? There are traces of iron corrosion suggesting that there is an iron core to this copper alloy object, perhaps seen in the cross section of the moulding. Otherwise the patina is dark green and dark brown. A similar, larger example (with the loop at the snout) was found in Little Oakley, Essex and was examined by Leslie Webster and Susan Youngs of the British Museum. They identified the object as a hasp, fastening onto something, possibly a securing rod for a book. They believed that it is 8th to 9th century in date and middle Anglo-Saxon. It is reasonable to suggest that this object is also of a similar function and of a similar date. | 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: | 700
900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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