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Description: | A copper alloy book clasp dating to the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries AD. It comprises a flat rectangular plate which flairs at one end. The expanded end is decorated with diagonal incisions and a scalloped terminal. There is a small circular perforation in each corner of the expanded end and a row of three conjoined perforations. At a mid point on the plate is a further perforation which is damaged. Two circumferential grooves surround this perforation. The plate is also decorated by a single ring and dot motif. At the other end of the plate is a curved rectangular lug. On the underside of the plate, there is a small circular section lug with flat base. The book clasp is bent back on itself and possesses a brown patina. It measures 38mm in length, 16mm in width at the rectangular end of the plate and 25mm in width at the expanded end. | 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: | 1550
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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