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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy book clasp, incomplete. Sub-hemi-spherical plano-convex plate (flat on the reverse) with roughly central circular perforation, and debased animal head projecting from one side with circular perforation running through it at 90° to the rest of the object. Two lugs on the opposite side of the plate to the projecting head, are broken off. On the reverse of the plate the central perforation is mis-cast into a tear-drop shape. Length 30.83mm, width 20.0mm, thickness across plate 3.77mm, thickness across projection 5.48mm, weight 6.26g.See Egan 1998 ("The Medieval Household", HMSO) pp277-280 for similar book clasps dating to c.1350-1450, including some on a book dating to 1454.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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