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Description: | A folding strap clasp made of cast copper alloy. The clasp frame is a sub-rectangle with convex outer edges, these sides being thicker, than they are wide. Each of the exterior side faces of the frame has two transverse ridges as decoration. The bars are narrowed at either end of the clasp. One of these bars has the clasp curled around it. It is formed from a sub-rectangular sheet of copper alloy which has a curled around the strap bar forming a '6' shape in plan. Riveted on to the terminal there is a sub-rectangular block. The opposite narrowed bar has a rectangular copper alloy plate folded in half. The terminals of this plate are abraded and one terminal has a copper alloy rivet through a rivet hole which originally would have held the two terminals and leather together. The plate is also bent forming a curved 'L' shape which is probably not intentional. The surface of the frame has a dark grey/green coloured patina, whereas the plate has a mid green/grey coloured patina. The clasp measures 24.67mm long, 11.59mm wide and weighs 2.9g. In Egan and Pritchard (Egan G. and Pritchard F. 2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press) there are similar clasps, Nos. 551 and 553 which Egan and Pritchard date to the late 13th to early 15th centuries.
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