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Description: | Post Medieval hooked book clasp, complete but bent, with backplate secured by three rivets, one near hook and others at terminal. Fishtail terminal decorated with herringbone lines. Next to this a transverse row of three decorative perforations and two triplets of short longitudinal lines. These cease at the largest of four concentric rings in the centre of which a hole penetrates both plates. The backplate ends in a fish tail but stops at a straight edge before the hook. between the two a considerable amount of leather survives at the broad end. Length 60mm. Width 15mm, 27mm at terminal. This must have been fixed to a strap rather than directly to a book cover. 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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