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Description: | Cast and sheet copper alloy incomplete folding strap clasp with plates and simple one-piece frame. The sides of the frame are slightly convex and are decorated with a moulded ridge near each corner. The incomplete folding end is recessed from the frame and has a crudely filed ovoid bar-mount still riveted to it. The opposite plate also still retains its rivet at the end of the plate.
The strap clasp is 36 mm long and 10.4 mm wide and 2.4 mm in thcikness. The frame is 12.8 mm long and 12.5 mm wide and 1.1 mm in thickness. The clasp weighs 3.23 g.
The strap clasp probably functioned together with the shield-shaped strap ends illustrated in Egan (2002) on page 157, Fig.103, Nos.732-42 which are dated to c.1350-1400.
Egan (2002) illustrates a similar example on page 118, Fig.77, No.553, which is dated to c.1330-1380. | 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: | 1330
1380 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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