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Description: | The frame of a strap clasp, medieval circa late 13th to 14th century date. This frame is rectangular in shape and measures 26mm in length and 12mm in width, it has a bar which is recessed for the now missing plate. The outer edge is expanded and has integrally cast decoration consisting of a triangular raised part with V-shaped notches in it above a tongue shaped part, which has a rounded front face and a hollow back face, what this outer edge depicts is uncertain, it also lacks a folding end. It is similar in style to an example from London which has an integral moulded outer edge in the shape of a crowned head and again has no folding end. Therefore how these folding clasps would have functioned is also obscure.(Egan and Pritchard p119-120, no 568). | 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: | 1250
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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