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Description: | Cast copper alloy double-hooked staple, lozenge-shaped in plan and flat in profile and section. The staple is still bent at one end, before the hooked terminus, and may have originally been bent at the other end, into a 90 degree angle. These would have been used to hold wooden objects together, but are not robust enough for boat timbers. Similar copper alloy staples are illustrated in Ottaway and Rogers (2002) on page 2829, Fig.1408, No.15161, which is dated to the 14th century; and in Griffiths, Philpott & Egan (2007) on page 288, Plate 73, Nos.3776-7 & 3781, which could be later in date; and in Margeson (1993) on page 139, Fig.104, Nos.944-5, which are dated from the 16th to the 17th century.
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