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Description: | A Post-Medieval cast copper alloy incomplete shield-shaped decorative mount, possibly a plate from a book clasp. The upper surface has a punched design of 6 fleur de lis in two rows. The means of attachment (to a leather strap?) was by three rivets - two at the top and one at the bottom - which are corroded and may or may not be integral. On the upper surface these rivets are at the centre of three punched circles. The reverse is plain apart from the three rivets. There are two hinges at the top which does give the object more the look of a buckle plate rather than a book clasp. Presumably there was a back plate which has been lost. If this is a book clasp the loop and bar to which it would have been attached is missing. The object has a mid brown patina with light green corrosion product on the reverse and also on the upper face within the grooves.There are book clasps illustrated in Egan 'The Medieval Household', 1998, page 279 although none resemble this one. In Read 'History Beneath Our Feet', 1988 there are several book clasps illustrated (p.91) but none are the same shape as this. However nos.1,2,4,11-14,16,17 and 19-21 do have circles around the rivet holes.Length 30.73mm, width 17.74mm, thickness 0.8mm, weight 2.2g.
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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