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Description: | A hook piece from a copper alloy Post Medieval (c.1550-1750) book clasp. It is a sub-rectangular piece of copper alloy sheet, with a flared attachment end, the edge of which is slightly damaged. At the opposite end is a curved hook (6.1mm wide) the tip of which has been lost. Below this the main body of the clasp is 14.0mm in width, flaring to 16.8mm at the attchment end. At the centre of the attachment end is the corroded remains of an iron rivet. There is cast decoration of a circle of small oval pellets surrounding the rivet hole and towards the hook end two pairs of raised transverse lines of pellets with a four petalled rose between the pairs. This artefact has a dark red-brown colour. It is 44.3mm long, 1.3mm thick excluding the rivet and weighs 5.12 grams.
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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