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Description: | Cast copper alloy eye section of a two-part clasp, the other half being the toggle section, probably from a sword belt or hanger. This half is made of one piece with moulded relief, openwork and engraved decoration. The plate has a central circular hole with a rivet hole either side of it, both retaining residues from the iron rivets. Both sides have two deep cusps between a trefoil knop in the centre and two bifurcate knops at either end. One of these pairs of knops, at the attachemnt end, form the terminals for the cabled end. There is a cabled collar at the juncture of the body and the eye and cirumferential ribs around the end bar of the eye. There is a circular suspension loop on one side of the eye, flush with its recessed edges.Read (2008) illustrates similar examples from Dorset and Wiltshire on pages 208-9, Figs. 753 & 755 which are dated from the 16th to the 17th century.
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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