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Description: | The bent hook-piece from a copper-alloy post-medieval book-clasp. The artefact has been bent twice: at the hooked end (diagonally) and at the flared attachment end. This front-plate has decoration on its upper surface; it is uncertain whether the sheet plate has survived within the folded front-plate. There is a large central punched ring-and-dot motif. As the body begins to widen, there are three recessed perforations, below which are 'feathered' motifs, four in total, with diverging side lines, a central line and diagonals between the two. This is a seemingly common c. 17th-century design; other examples can be found illustrated in Crummy 1998 (68; refs. 2992, 2993). This artefact has a red-brown colour with dustings of green corrosion product. | 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: | 1600
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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