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Description: | A copper-alloy frame from a folding strap-clasp of medieval date. Several examples of this category of artefact have been found in excavations in London, in layers dating from the late 13th to early 15th centuries AD (see Egan and Pritchard, 1991, p. 116). The frame is sub-rectangular in plan, having slightly bowed long sides. These sides are thin, with vertical inner and outer faces and a transverse ridge at each end of the outer faces. The axis bar is of flattened-oval section; the opposite vertical side is of rectangular section and has remnants of an attached sheet metal folding plate.The artefact is corroded. It measures 14.4mm long, 12.3mm wide and 2.3mm thick. The weight is 0.85g.
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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