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Description: | Fragment of Post Medieval belt clasp, elaborate straight end with small notch at both ends of transverse groove, rivet-hole, large perforation flanked by two small notches on both sides between pair of large semi-circular notches, and broken across further rivet-hole, >23 x 19mm. cf. Read (1995), no.716, and discussed in a letter to Treasure Hunting (July 2005) by A. de Reuck, who suggests their use as ladies? belt clasps, with the projecting loop on the corresponding other (female) half (missing here) perhaps supporting a chatelaine. 16th century. | 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: | 1500
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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