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Description: | The front plate for a post medieval copper alloy book clasp with incised decoration. A plain back plate may originally have been attached by a rivet, the hole for which is vsible at one end of the clasp. The plate is 43.33mm long with concave sides, ranging in width from up to 14.40mm, at the broad end, to 11.53mm in the middle. The external surface of the plate is engraved with a concentric circle pattern at one end and a seies of 8 annulets, lines, ?fleur de lis and concentric circle design at the other. This end also has the simple hook for attachment to the hasp. The design is broadly similar to that on an example recorded in Bailey (1995, 72, no.8) which is dated to the 15th-17th centuries. The clasp weighs 3.13g and is 0.9m thick. | 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: | 1400
1699 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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